The Fair Work Commission has found that a software company did not unfairly dismiss an employee over his non-compliance with a directive to return to the office, saying that a remote work clause in his employment contract was conditional.
A court has slapped Qoin cryptocurrency issuer BPS Financial with a $14 million penalty for “serious and unlawful misconduct”, including making misleading statements about the product and providing financial advice without a license.
V2food, the CSIRO-backed start-up behind Hungry Jack’s plant-based ‘Rebel Whopper’, has lost its bid to patent a product that changes colour when cooked in order to imitate the “meat experience”.
A tribunal has found Deloitte’s cost-benefit analysis on new energy efficiency standards is protected from disclosure under Freedom of Information laws because it contains trade secrets.
A former BHP Coal employee has lost his unfair dismissal case, with the Fair Work Commission finding his conduct in throwing a mug and threatening a co-worker was a valid reason for dismissal.
The declaration of Melbourne’s CBD as a location permitting random searches was “incompatible with human rights”, a judge found Friday, although she tossed a related constitutional challenge.
A judge has set aside a tribunal’s refusal of a developer’s application to build a retirement village on land owned by the Federal Golf Club in Canberra.
In the first of dozens of similar cases to be decided, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found Uber breached its contract with a driver by deactivating his account over seven complaints.
A Hong Kong company has won its bid to claw back funds from the family of a deceased debtor who transferred a Sydney property to his wife as part of a purported separation agreement, with a court finding the transaction was intended to defraud creditors.
The mayor of a Perth local council has been awarded $250,000 in damages for defamation against a constituent who made a series of Facebook posts falsely alleging that he was misusing a public office.