Allens’ response to a complaint of sexual harassment in the firm’s Brisbane office five years ago may have breached the federal Work Health and Safety […]
Sexual harassment is alarmingly common throughout the legal profession in South Australia, according to a new report that details an assault by a former judge and harassing texts from a magistrate who told a lawyer while presiding over a case that he imagined her “kneeling between his legs at the bench”.
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 […]
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 Melbourne law firm and its director have been ordered to pay over $184,000 to a former junior lawyer who earned hundreds of thousands of […]
A Sydney barrister who has admitted to sexually harassing a young female solicitor in a NSW Supreme Court conference room is facing disciplinary action for […]
Big Six firm Allens allowed a senior lawyer to stay on at the firm for five weeks after a sexual harassment incident in 2012, the […]
The owner of a Sydney law firm has been ordered to pay his former practice manager $49,910 in compensation for unfair dismissal, after the Fair […]
Ashurst has become the second Big Six firm to up its bonus game to reward staff for the firm’s strong performance during the coronavirus pandemic, […]
A judge has ruled that a former ANZ trader who alleges he was fired after complaining about rate-rigging at the bank can amend his lawsuit […]