Law firm Hicksons Lawyers has reached a last-minute settlement to resolve sex discrimination claims brought by a female former partner who claims she was denied a promotion to equity partner because of her gender.
A review of sexual harassment in Victorian courts sparked by the findings of an investigation into former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon has found a culture that can “normalise or ignore” bad behaviour by judges and others, with more than two dozen court staff reporting they had experienced sexual harassment, many on numerous occasions.
The founder of beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has been slapped with an order banning him from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.
Indonesia’s PT Garuda has withdrawn a challenge to a $19 million penalty imposed for its part in a global airline cartel, but the airline has reached an agreement with the ACCC to pay the fine in instalments.
Google misled or is likely to have misled some reasonable users of its Android devices about the digital giant’s use of their location data, a judge has found in a win for the consumer regulator.
Administrators appointed to the Australian arm of supply-chain finance firm Greensill Capital are recommending that creditors, which are owed in excess of $1.75 billion, vote to wind up the company.
Telstra has failed in its appeal to the High Court to hear its battle with Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the planned upgrade of its payphone network across Australia.
News publishers facing a defamation suit by Ben Roberts-Smith have called on the war veteran to explain alleged “deliberate concealment” of documents relevant to the case, as the Australian Federal Police reveals they are investigating claims he buried evidence.
Pasta distributor Conga Foods is challenging a ruling that dashed its bid to register its ‘La Famiglia Rana’ trade mark in Australia.
The judge overseeing sports presenter Erin Molan’s defamation case against the Daily Mail won’t force Molan to be questioned ahead of trail about a segment on Nine’s The Footy Show in which she laughed at an off-colour joke, saying the publisher was “fishing”.