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Justice is colour-blind: Loss for Nick Scali not indictment on white furniture, says VCAT
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-06-03 3:54 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Nick Scali has been ordered to refund a disgruntled customer $1,600 for a white leather chair that discoloured mere months after use.

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King & Wood Mallesons nabs Gilbert + Tobin competition ace
Business of Law 2022-06-02 9:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Top tier law firm King & Wood Mallesons has lured leading competition lawyer Luke Woodward to bolster its regulatory practice.

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Barrister, solicitors must pay costs for ‘negligent’ post-appeal work in oppression case
Appeals 2022-06-01 6:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Lawyers who were found to be negligent in drafting orders after a successful appeal in a corporate oppression case have to foot their own costs after incurring “wasted or unnecessary” fees, an appeals court has held.

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QSuper says any class action recoveries can’t go to law firm, funder
Class Actions 2022-06-01 2:12 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

QSuper has hit back at a class action over its alleged failure to notify members of changes to its premiums, saying group members failed to heed a “large font” notice of the changes and that any recoveries cannot be paid out to the law firm and funder running the litigation.

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University sued by union over ‘inaccurate’ workload formula
Education 2022-05-31 9:33 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

The National Tertiary Education Industry Union has brought proceedings against the University of the Sunshine Coast for allegedly allocating teaching and research work to academic staff that did not “accurately reflect the time taken to do the work”.

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French Bulldog breeder wins defamation case over ‘puppy farm’ Facebook posts
Defamation 2022-05-27 3:01 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

A French Bulldog breeder has won a defamation case over Facebook comments calling her business a ‘puppy farm’.

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

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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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 Sydney

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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Wotton + Kearney opens Adelaide office, nabs Sparke Helmore special counsel
Business of Law 2022-05-25 10:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Insurance law firm Wotton + Kearney has opened its seventh office across Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Adelaide to meet local client demand and allow lawyers to work from their home town after the pandemic. 

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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 Melbourne

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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