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‘This is not a computer game’: Thomson Geer rails against remote witnesses in negligence case
Catherine Pierce 2022-05-26 3:50 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has allowed three witnesses for HK Realway to give evidence by video link at an upcoming negligence trial against Thomson Geer, over protests from the firm, which said it would be inherently unfair.

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Ban on lawyer’s practicing certificate can’t be retroactive, appeals court says
Business of Law 2022-05-26 5:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An appeals court has overturned a decision banning a lawyer from practice with retrospective effect and ordering her to pay $20,000 in legal costs, after a tribunal sanctioned her for allegedly misleading a court employee and making “offensive” remarks in 2016.

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Dover Financial, ex-director mull lawsuit against ASIC
ASIC 2022-05-26 9:33 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Defunct financial advisory firm Dover Financial and its former director have taken ASIC to court seeking discovery as they mull a potential lawsuit against the corporate regulator.

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‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnick sued for $500,000 over mining tenements
Contracts 2022-05-26 5:25 pm By Sam Matthews

Mining company Moina Gold has sued Joseph ‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnick for $500,000 it says it is owed over an alleged botched contract to explore three mineral tenements in Tasmania.

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Twigg family sues Pitcher Partners for $127M
Accounting 2022-05-25 6:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Twigg family has hit accounting firm Pitcher Partners with a lawsuit claiming it helped Max Twigg, race car driver and former owner of the Byron Bay Hotel, misappropriate $127.8 million in family trust money for himself.

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MIS regime ‘just cannot work’ for class action funding arrangements, court told
Adam Hochroth 2022-05-25 10:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

A litigation funder challenging a decision underpinning recently enacted rules that require class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes told an appeals court Wednesday the decision was plainly wrong and the regime unworkable.

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Former Noumi GC drops unfair dismissal lawsuit
Andrew Gotting 2022-05-25 1:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former secretary and general counsel for Noumi, formerly known as Freedom Foods, has dropped her unfair dismissal lawsuit after the maker of the popular Vitalife and MilkLab products tossed claims accusing her of serious misconduct. 

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ANZ ordered to hand over documents in long-running pregnancy discrimination case
ANZ 2022-05-25 7:21 pm By Sam Matthews

A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.

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‘Chickens coming home to roost’: NSW faces multiplying claims by junior doctors
Catherine Gleeson 2022-05-25 3:53 pm By Sam Matthews

The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation.

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Victoria’s triple-zero operator faces class action investigation
Class Actions 2022-05-24 10:30 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority may be hit with a class action over alleged systemic failures in its ambulance call handling operations that may have led to at least 15 deaths.

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