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High Court won’t take up Clive Palmer’s challenge to criminal charges
High Court 2024-06-06 11:37 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court will not hear mining magnate Clive Palmer’s challenge to a court’s finding that lawsuits he brought challenging two criminal cases against him over a takeover bid and alleged payments to his political party were an abuse of process and should be stayed.

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Kennedys raids Clyde & Co’s insurance team
Business of Law 2024-06-03 11:19 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Kennedys has lured a team of 16 from Clyde & Co, including three partners, to bolster its insurance practice group, the latest raid on its rival firm.

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IAG hit with class action over ‘misleading’ loyalty discounts
Class Actions 2024-05-28 11:22 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Two units of insurer IAG have been hit with a class action for allegedly misleading hundreds of thousands of home owners insurance customers about loyalty discounts.

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Don’t ask AI questions you don’t already know the answers to, law firm says
AI 2024-05-28 11:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Lawyers are in no immediate danger of losing their jobs to AI, according to a leading law firm, which has foundĀ that asking large language models legal questions you don’t already know the answers to is risky business.

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Noumi, ASIC fight ruling that privilege over PwC report waived during probe
Appeals 2024-05-28 11:27 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Noumi and ASIC are challenging a finding that the food manufacturer waived legal professional privilege over a PricewaterhouseCoopers report commissioned by its lawyers at Ashurst by disclosing the report during an ASIC investigation.

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TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson seeks $1.8M in costs in Lehrmann defamation case
Defamation 2024-05-27 12:52 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Former Network Ten Lisa Wilkinson in seeking $1.8 million in costs in Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation case over an episode of The Project that aired Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.

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Ord Minnett exec says he was axed for complaint about $110K pay cut after ASIC fine
Employment 2024-05-24 11:40 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A former Ord Minnett executive has taken the wealth management firm to court alleging he was sacked for complaining about a $110,000 cut in his pay imposed after the corporate regulator slapped the firm with a $880,000 penalty for breaching market integrity rules.

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Suit accusing Netflix of axing employee on maternity leave sent to mediation
Employment 2024-05-24 11:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A lawsuit accusing Netflix of violating the Fair Work Act by making an employee’s position redundant while she was on parental leave has been sent to mediation.

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Barrister noted for ā€˜dessicatedā€™ humour sworn in as judge on NSW Supreme Court
Courts 2024-05-23 11:18 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Justice Tim Faulknerā€™s ā€œdessicatedā€ sense of humour was on display during a swearing in ceremony on Thursday, during which the new judge thanked his colleagues on the bench for their handwritten letters of welcome, one of which he said was ā€œcompletely unreadableā€.

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ToolGen wins court approval to patent gene editing technology
Intellectual Property 2024-05-23 11:56 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

South Korean biotech ToolGen has won court approval to patent its genome editing technology CRISPR, after an earlier bid to protect its IP found the revolutionary technology was not patentable.

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