Woolworths Group’s chief growth officer is taking the supermarket giant to court, claiming she faced excessive workloads and discrimination after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
The NSW Law Society’s unusual approach to a proposed case against a law firm principal for a clerk’s alleged embezzlement of client funds means insurer Lawcover’s summary dismissal bid must fail, a judge has said.
The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction is personally liable for the $3.2 million in costs of rectification work on external cladding at an apartment complex in southeast Melbourne, a judge has found.
Ashurst has nabbed an internationally recognised infrastructure expert from Deloitte to lead Ashurst Risk Advisory’s infrastructure and energy transition team.
Mining equipment supplier Southern Cross Industrial has lost its suit alleging an industrial lighting manufacturer infringed its patent for a portable light tower, with a judge finding the patent invalid.
A securitization and structured finance expert with over 20 years of experience has made the jump from Allens to Jones Day.
A judge has declined to order US-based animal genomics company Scidera to file a position statement in its bovine gene patent infringement suit and said she was “running out of patience” after unsuccessful strike-out and summary dismissal applications by the defendants.
A company linked to the Victorian Liberal Party that provided a $1.5 million advance to former party leader John Pesutto says a case launched to block the loan should be thrown out.
ASIC has called for a court to strike out negligence and public misfeasance claims in a suit by billionaire Clive Palmer alleging the regulator and its chief investigator were “improperly influenced” by corporate rivals.
BHP must compensate coal mine workers who were rostered to work at a Queensland mine on Christmas and Boxing Day without a reasonable right of refusal.