Former state Liberal MP Moira Deeming has won $300,000 in damages against Victorian party leader John Pesutto over statements found to have falsely conveyed she had links to neo-Nazis.
A competition class action against Stanwell and CS Energy has been tossed, with a judge finding the power companies’ conduct was legitimate “profit maximisation behaviour”.
Element Zero has denied claims that three former Fortescue employees, including one executive, misused confidential information and developed a green iron process on the company dime.
The federal government spent more than $600 million on private law firms in 2022-23, and Clayton Utz was the firm the government turned to the most.
A former Herbert Smith Freehills financial services expert has made the jump to MinterEllison, the eighth lawyer to join in a single month.
Slater & Gordon has hit back at a suit by its former head of human resources, who claims she was axed after raising concerns about underpayments, arguing she was fired for misconduct.
Law firm Holding Redlich has snagged two MinterEllison partners to grow its Canberra office and bolster its offering to government clients.
The law firm running a class action against ANZ and superannuation trustee OnePath wants a 29.4 per cent cut of the $50 million settlement, having run the case on a no win, no fee basis.
The ATO has won the nod from the High Court to appeal a finding that a royalty withholding tax did not apply to payments from Schweppes to PepsiCo under agreements to sell brands like Pepsi and Gatorade in Australia.
In the first case of its kind, a government agency has filed proceedings against education technology company Chegg, alleging it has breached laws designed to prohibit academic cheating.