Dozens of Macquarie advisers who previously won a $330,000 payday against the bank have been ordered back to court for a rehearing of their long-running case over employment entitlements.
Microsoft has won a pittance for copyright infringement but copped a āsubstantial costs orderā in its six-year-old intellectual property suit against a Melbourne computer retailer over its Windows 7 software, which previously netted the Silicon Valley giant a $2.8 million payout from Judge Sandy Street that was slammed as a “regrettable” judicial failure.
The Albanese government has thrown its support behind a proposal to establish a federal judicial commission that would address questionable conduct by judges.
A court has overturned a ruling by a federal judge repeatedly in the spotlight for his decisions, finding in the latest case that a fraud claim against a property purchaser in a dispute with bankruptcy trustees was a notion developed, pursued and upheld by the judge himself.
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.
A Federal Court judge has admonished Federal Circuit Court Judge Sandy Street for āa complete lack of intellectual engagementā in considering whether an Indian migrant engaged in a sham marriage in order to stay in Australia.
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.
Macquarie Bank is challenging a ruling that it pay $330,000 in pecuniary penalties after it was found to have underpaid a group of former financial advisers because of a “defective and deficient” payment system.
Macquarie Bank has been ordered to fork out $330,000 to dozens of former advisers for a “defective and deficient” system which saw the bank fail to pay a raft of employment entitlements.