The only female partner at global technology research firm Information Services Group has sued her employer for alleged sex discrimination and harassment, saying the company is a “hostile environment” for senior women employees.
A judge has ordered two Sydney roof tiling businesses and their directors to pay a total of $420,000 in penalties after making admissions in proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleging they rigged bids for construction at the University of Sydney.
Nine Network has apologised to former member for Bowman, Andrew Laming, over a news segment that accused him of taking a lewd photograph, having struck a confidential settlement after the broadcaster dropped all defences to the politician’s defamation case.
The NSW gaming regulator has found Star Entertainment is unfit to hold a casino licence and has threatened disciplinary action after uncovering anti-money laundering breaches and “inherently deceptive” misconduct.
A judge has approved an opt-out notice in a class action against retirement home provider Aveo Group that advises of a proposed application for a controversial funding order that would put a lien on some group members homes.
German biotech Fresenius Kabi has struck back at Samsung Bioepis’s latest attack on the validity of its patents for a liquid formulation of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, accusing the Korean company of causing its sales to flag by infringing the patent.
A class action against cruise operator Carnival PLC over the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess will ask the High Court to hear a challenge to a decision that found a class action waiver for foreign passengers was not unfair.
A former special forces commander has sued the Australian Broadcasting Corporation over two stories which he claims implied that he “callously killed” a prisoner and committed war crimes while in Afghanistan in 2012.
An appeals court has tossed an appeal in litigation between members of the embattled Binetter family, founders of Nudie Juice, over a $1 million loan given by Holocaust survivor Ida Wolff to her nephew Ronald Binetter.
As he approaches his retirement, High Court Justice Patrick Keane was farewelled by the court’s Chief Justice this week, honoured for his “powerful intellect and industry”.