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The United States has won an appeal in a Darwin-based soldier’s personal injury suit, with the Northern Territory Court of Appeal finidng the US has foreign state immunity from the claims.
UK law firm DWF has recruited nine insurance partners from Hall & Wilcox to power its growth in Australia.
A judge has found that Telstra did not violate disability discrimination laws when it put a hard-of-hearing Triple-0 operator on leave after she failed a hearing test.
Macpherson Kelley has recruited a property expert from Hall & Wilcox, as well as the former head of commercial litigation at SLF Lawyers and a tax lawyer from PCL Lawyers, in an expansion of its national team.
Vanguard Investments has been ordered to pay a penalty of almost $13 million for misleading the public about its $1 billion “ethically conscious” hedge fund.
The Australian Pacific Investment Corporation has scored a win a dispute with Vasco Trustees over a managed investment scheme at the Yarra Valley Lodge hotel, with a judge finding that 'evergreen' licensing agreements are invalid.
Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has yet to engage lawyers to pursue his appeal of a judge’s finding that he raped colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, but while he has the right to represent himself, experts have told Lawyerly it would be "very unwise" for him to run the case on his own.
A judge has allowed a coal mine truck driver to bring claims as much as five years out of time against Mt Arthur Coal and Chandler Macleod over alleged bullying by a colleague, finding the delay in bringing the case was justified by a period of disability which left the worker “severely impaired in her capacity to pursue any litigation”.
The auditors of self-managed superannuation funds that clients of Melissa Caddick invested with the Sydney fraudster and her company Maliver have hit back at class action claims, saying the clients have themselves to blame for handing over “direct control” of their funds.
A court has imposed an interim injunction on a former Samsung Electronics business manager, restraining him from taking a similar role with rival Electrolux until a case alleging breach of post-employment restraints is heard.