One Nation’s Pauline Hanson was not motivated by racism but provoked by the hypocrisy of rival politician Mehreen Faruqi when she fired off her “piss off back to Pakistan” tweet, her lawyer told the Full Federal Court Monday. But Faruqi’s barrister has told the appeals court the accusation of hypocrisy was itself racist.
The High Court has rejected a removal application by paramedics in a class action over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued in 2021 by the Queensland Ambulance Service.
Mining Services International is taking a $1 billion dispute over the terminated sale of a mine in Bahia to the High Court, after the receiver for Brazilian mining company Atlantic Nickel won a bid to stay the case.
Singapore’s CapitaLand has secured judgment in the Federal Court against a missing executive accused of embezzling the real estate asset manager’s funds.
Lander & Rogers has recruited a competition law expert from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer for its corporate team ahead of the new merger review regime.
The corporate cop has launched two new cases and sought approval to bring a third action over financial advice that led customers to sink hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings into the failed Shield and First Guardian investment funds.
Airport operator APAC has won access to Q&A logs in a data room set up by shareholder Dexus for prospective buyers, in a dispute over whether the real estate asset manager breached a confidentiality deed.
Woolworths Group’s chief growth officer is taking the supermarket giant to court, claiming she faced excessive workloads and discrimination after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction is personally liable for the $3.2 million in costs of rectification work on external cladding at an apartment complex in southeast Melbourne, a judge has found.
Mirvac is selling the site of the Toombul Shopping Centre in Queensland, which was demolished following the 2022 floods, to local developer Irvine Property Group.