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The Victorian Supreme Court has awarded a couple $145,000 in damages from a construction firm that denied them access to their brand new $5.8 million apartment and art gallery in Melbourne's Eureka Tower for 130 weeks.
A leading female partner at Piper Alderman, who is suing the firm's other partners for sex discrimination, has told a court their attempt to oust her from the partnership was based on groundless claims of bullying and was a case of "skulduggery".
Railway technology company Wavetrain Systems has dropped its bid for a court order barring a competitor started by its former CEO from making allegedly false claims about its patented rail safety devices to clients.
Law firm Piper Alderman said Friday it would defend a sex discrimination case brought by a leading female partner against the firm's partnership, saying it did "not tolerate inappropriate workplace behaviour of any kind".
A female Piper Alderman partner has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the firm's other partners and has won a temporary injunction blocking the partnership from ousting her.
Mills Oakley has settled a lawsuit brought by a former special counsel alleging the firm terminated her employment after she complained about a partner who she says showed up drunk to work and overbilled clients.
Railway technology company Wavetrain Systems has asked the court to bar a competitor started by its former CEO from making allegedly false claims about its patented rail safety devices to clients.
A judge has ordered auto components distributor Frontline Australasia to pay $1.1 million in damages after reproducing wire harnesses made by Lumen Australia without permission and supplying the unauthorised parts to car makers Mazda and Mitsubishi.
IP Australia has brought a challenge to a landmark court victory for startup Rokt approving a computer software patent.
A challenge to the legality of common fund orders, an appeal to the High Court over the power of judges to stay competing cases, one of the first judgments in a shareholder class action and reform proposals promise to make 2019 another action-packed year in class actions. Here, experts give their predictions for the class action landscape this year.