Sebastian McIntosh

Two former executives at Jones Lang LaSalle can bring unfair dismissal claims against the real estate giant, despite a solicitor’s error meaning the cases were technically out of time.

Jones Lang LaSalle has argued that its former national head of real estate cannot add an unfair dismissal claim to his lawsuit against the real estate giant, which was brought late due to a solicitor's mistake. 

Real estate giant JLL is seeking access to chats between its former national head of commercial real estate and his lawyers to test his evidence that he contacted his solicitors 25 times over a two-month period. 

Italian builder Webuild has lost its bid to permanently stay a SafeWork NSW prosecution over an 2022 incident while tunnelling for the Snowy Hydro expansion that allegedly gave rise to a risk of death or serious injury to two workers.

Meriton has won summary dismissal of a security concierge's Fair Work claims, with a judge finding the case had no prospects of success.

Civil construction firm United Crib Blocks Construction has won a fight over a notice to produce in a case alleging a former employee has misused the company's confidential information.

A former chief accountant for MUR Shipping who claims he was pressured to retire has won an appeal in his age discrimination case, bumping his damages award up from $20,000 to around $230,000.

The Full Federal Court has issued a severe rebuke to a judge for his decision in an employment dispute, calling the judgment a "disordered stream of consciousness" and saying it had no choice but to send the matter back for a retrial.

An employment solicitor representing a sacked Jetstar pilot must pay the airline's legal costs in defending an appeal application "that ought never to have been made", an appeals court has found.

Certification of pleadings in legal action is not a formality that needs to be "ticked off", and solicitors who put their signature to improperly pleaded cases should face adverse costs, an irritated appeals judge has said.