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Judge remains concerned about conflict of interest in PWC privilege battle with tax office
Tax 2020-12-18 10:25 pm By Miklos Bolza

Assurances that PwC can be a defendant in a privilege fight with the ATO while representing three other defendants in the proceedings and avoid a conflict of interest has failed to allay concerns raised by a Federal Court judge, who said the situation created “at least an appearance of tension”.

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Barrister sues Fairfax over article claiming he facilitated ‘largest ever’ US tax fraud
Banki Haddock Fiora 2020-12-18 3:55 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

A barrister has launched defamation proceedings against Fairfax over an article alleging he spent decades helping Texas billionaire Bob Brockman defraud the United States of US$2 billion in taxes.

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Amazon discriminated against pregnant job applicant, lawsuit claims
Employment 2020-12-18 3:11 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

A job applicant has taken e-commerce giant Amazon to court for allegedly violating the Fair Work Act by refusing to give her a job because was pregnant.

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ASIC has spent $3.2M on criminal lawsuits against Clive Palmer
White Collar 2020-12-18 3:11 pm By Miklos Bolza

ASIC has spent $3.2 million so far pursuing billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer in two criminal lawsuits alleging takeover contraventions and fraud.

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News Corp denies articles suggested lawyer was too old and deaf to represent clients
Defamation 2020-12-18 3:04 pm By Miklos Bolza

A News Corp subsidiary has hit back at a defamation lawsuit by a Sydney-based solicitor claiming two Daily Telegraph articles implied he was too old and deaf to represent clients, filing a defence denying that the imputations were conveyed.

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Group members will get about half of $50M Vocation class action settlement
Class Actions 2020-12-18 2:37 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Shareholders of collapsed vocational training company Vocation are poised to get about half of a $50 million settlement reached last month in a complex, long-running class action alleging the company failed to make adequate disclosures about its contracts with the Victorian Department of Education.

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Fairfax settles defamation lawsuit by former Toll chair Roy Horsburgh
Fairfax Media 2020-12-18 1:54 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Fairfax Media has issued an apology and settled a lawsuit by former Toll Group chairman Ray Horsburgh over an Australian Financial Review article that allegedly defamed him by claiming he made a racist remark at a board meeting.

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Qantas did not misuse Jobkeeper, appeals court finds
Employment 2020-12-17 9:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

The terms of the Fair Work Act do not guarantee employees of Qantas or potentially any workers in Australia the right to entitlements such as annual leave for work done while receiving JobKeeper payments, the Full Federal Court has ruled.

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Maurice Blackburn did not breach obligations in TWE class action, Full Court finds
Appeals 2020-12-17 4:55 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Full Federal Court has tossed an appeal by Treasury Wine Estates claiming that Maurice Blackburn and barrister Guy Donnellan breached their obligations in preparing the pleadings in a current shareholder class action against the global winemaker.

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Raid bug spray maker SC Johnson mulls strikeout bid to swat Reckitt’s case over ads
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-12-17 3:09 pm By Miklos Bolza

US-based consumer goods giant SC Johnson & Son has foreshadowed a bid to strike out a case filed by Reckitt Benckiser over its Raid Max insecticide ads after a Federal Court judge found Reckitt had a “weak” prima facie case.

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