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Judge rejects claim MinterEllison coerced potential witness in harassment suit
Employment 2025-08-18 11:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected claims that MinterEllison acted improperly towards a potential witness in a sexual harassment suit against the WA Department of Justice, saying the firm is entitled to make unsolicited contact with potential witnesses. 

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Ex-Downer EDI project manager can’t pull ICAC report over Transport for NSW contracts
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-08-19 11:05 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A former Downer EDI project manager has lost a bid for court orders forcing NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption to remove a report into a probe relating to Transport for NSW and Inner West Council tenders.

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Metro Cinemas loses case over lease agreement with NSW council
Contracts 2025-08-18 11:43 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has dismissed a case by Metro Cinemas against a NSW council, finding a lease agreement did not require the council to replace the cinema’s aging seats.

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Court OKs $59M settlement in rate-rigging class action against banks
Class Actions 2025-08-15 11:58 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has signed off on a $59 million settlement in a class action accusing five banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging, while bemoaning the failure of successive attorneys-general to advance reforms clarifying the court’s power to make class closure orders.

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Richard Crookes wins costs of aborted mediation in cladding suit
Construction 2025-08-18 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Builder Richard Crookes has won its costs after mediation was aborted in a case by the owners corporation for a building in Sydney’s Erskineville over aluminium composite panel cladding installed nine years ago. 

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Roy Hill loses bid for declarations on validity of mining leases
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-08-18 11:17 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has rejected Roy Hill’s bid for a declaration that two of its mining leases could not be impeached as long as they are the subject of a registered mortgage, saying it would preclude any challenges.

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Murray Darling authority slams class action’s ‘incoherent’ duty of care claim
Trials 2025-08-14 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.

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Super giant Mercer sued by ASIC for ‘longstanding and systemic’ failures
Superannuation 2025-08-14 1:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Mercer Super faces enforcement action by ASIC, alleging the superannuation giant failed to inform the watchdog about investigations into serious issues, including a failure to refund premiums to dead members.

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HESTA super fund says ATO overtaxed it by $11M
Tax 2025-08-14 11:28 pm By Andy Sidler

HESTA Super has complained that the tax office has unfairly stripped it of $11 million in franking credits, denying it did not hold the credits ‘at risk’ for the required 45-day period. 

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Former Labor MP, now workplace umpire not DQ’d from ‘same pay’ cases: court
Employment 2025-08-14 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has dismissed a bid by a group of labour hire companies to disqualify former Labor MP now Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases for apprehended bias.

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