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Seven, Stokes keep up fight to shield emails with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers
Appeals 2023-08-16 11:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

Seven Network and owner Kerry Stokes are seeking to challenge a ruling ordering them to produce thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as Nine tallies its costs of successfully defending the former soldier’s defamation action.

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Court strikes out pilot’s claims that Qantas workplace was ‘hostile to women’
Employment 2023-08-16 9:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Qantas has succeeded in attacking claims that it created a workplace that was “hostile to women”, leveled in a former female pilot’s sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Chatime boss liable for underpayments despite ignorance of unlawful activity, court says
Employment 2023-08-16 9:19 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has found the managing director of teahouse franchise Chatime liable for the underpayment of staff, despite accepting that he believed the company’s wage system was not unlawful.

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Clive Palmer can’t hide role as funder of discontinued class action against Telstra
Class Actions 2023-08-15 11:23 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge who previously described as a “schemozzle” a law firm’s attempt to drop a class action over Telstra’s COVID-19 vaccine policy has refused a bid to keep secret Clive Palmer’s involvement as funder of the aborted litigation.

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Three-way contest looms to run class action against IG Markets over CFDs
Class Actions 2023-08-15 11:16 am By Cindy Cameronne

IG Markets has been hit with a second class action for offering “highly risky and unsuitable financial products” to retail investors, with a third competing proceeding in the works.

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Blue Sky director points finger at EY in shareholder class action
Class Actions 2023-08-15 10:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Blue Sky director has pointed the finger at auditor Ernst & Young in a class action alleging the collapsed investment firm misled shareholders by misstating its assets under management. 

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Dixon Advisory class action loses novel bid for docs to use in mediation
Class Actions 2023-08-14 10:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has refused a lead applicant’s novel bid for financial information to use at settlement discussions in a group proceeding against Dixon Advisory.

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Dell cops $10M penalty for misleading customers about discounts
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-08-14 1:10 pm By Christine Caulfield

Dell Australia has been ordered to pay a $10 million penalty for making false and misleading representations about the discount prices of add-on computer monitors.

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Telstra, TPG give up fight over $1.8B network sharing deal
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-08-14 2:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

Telstra and TPG will not challenge a decision by the Australian Competition Tribunal to uphold the ACCC’s rejection of their proposed regional network sharing agreement.

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In-house lawyer can’t rep WA company in proceedings against defamation lawyers
Business of Law 2023-08-14 4:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An in-house lawyer is barred from representing his employer in proceedings against a law firm after a judge found it breached rules in Western Australia that require corporate litigants to be represented by solicitors. 

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