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Victoria Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes’ interference in a Fire Rescue Victoria union dispute was not "unlawful, unconscionable or illegitimate", despite the AG overstepping her statutory authority, a judge has found.
Senior counsel for the banking royal commission Rowena Orr KC has been appointed as a judge on Victoria's Court of Appeal, with class action silk Alistair Pound appointed to fill her shoes as the state's solicitor-general.
The High Court has struck down a Victorian tax on electric cars, finding the state usurped powers held only by the federal government.
A judge has made the “regrettable” call to postpone the trial in a case brought by workers challenging the Victorian government’s COVID-19 health directions until after they expire, blaming the workers for creating a series of “fruitless” delays.
A group of 134 workers in healthcare, education and construction have argued a judge should grant them a temporary exemption from Victoria's direction mandating essential employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 to work outside their homes.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer and two of his mining firms have lost a High Court challenge seeking to overturn a Western Australian law which prevented him from suing the state government for $30 billion over mining tenements in the Pilbara.
Victoria’s attorney-general has appointed star senior counsel for the banking royal commission, Rowena Orr QC, as the state’s highest legal adviser.
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Qantas has been hit with a test case to determine whether axing 2,000 ground staff and replacing them with "insecure" labour hire workers is unlawful.
Aircraft engineers for Qantas are challenging a ruling that the airline had no "genuine choice" when it stood them down in March during the COVID-19 pandemic.