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The Full Court has granted a bid for a costs certificate by a former Atanaskovic Hartnell general manager whose win in an employment suit was overturned due to a judge's "uncritical copying and pasting" of submissions.
An appeals court has set aside a $160,000 judgment against Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell after finding a “time poor” trial judge had copied and pasted submissions in key parts of his ruling.
An appeals court has set aside a $160,000 judgment against Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell, overturning a finding that a founding partner engaged in a "campaign of denigration" against a former general manager.
Former Liberal MP Andrew Laming has been hit with a $40,000 fine for failing to disclose that he was behind three politically motivated Facebook posts in 2018 and 2019.
The Full Court is set to weigh in on whether judges who make adverse findings on credibility during the liability phase of a hearing should recuse themselves from determining penalty, an issue which a judge has said may require a new court protocol.
An incorporated legal practice has lost its bid to recover costs for work done by its own solicitors while self-represented in a dispute with a former client, with the Full Federal Court finding that making an exception based on firm size would “revive an inequality before the law”.
The founders of streetwear retailer City Beach have won a fight with the ATO over the taxation of a $52 million disposal of pre-capital gains tax assets.
Fortescue has brought legal action against start-up Element Zero and three former employees, alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the Western Australian mining company's confidential information.
A special leave application by the Catholic diocese fighting to overturn a Full Federal Court judgment that two school teachers were entitled to backdated pay rises has failed.
Auto repair giant AMA Group has been hit with a lawsuit by a sales consultant who says she was sexually harassed by a manager to the point of a psychological breakdown and directed to attend work at an all-male wrecking yard after she complained about the harassment.