A group of former Brighton Secondary College students have launched a representative proceeding against the State of Victoria and the school’s former principal for his failure to address a “high level” of antisemitic bullying.
A United Nations special rapporteur is seeking court approval to intervene in a lawsuit by First Nations and pro-Palestine activists challenging laws passed in the wake of the Bondi massacre that bar protests after a terrorist incident.
A key witness has been barred from giving evidence via video link during an upcoming trial in pianist Jayson Gillham’s discrimination case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
A litigant bringing a sexual harassment case against the WA Department of Justice is now represented by pro bono counsel after the Federal Court’s top judge raised concerns about her “very personal” recusal application.
The declaration of Melbourne’s CBD as a location permitting random searches was “incompatible with human rights”, a judge found Friday, although she tossed a related constitutional challenge.
BHP and Rio Tinto have told a court that the claims of thousands of women who allegedly experienced workplace sexual harassment and discrimination should not be brought as class actions.
The declaration of Melbourne’s CBD as a designated area permitting increased police search powers was justified to prevent violence, the Victoria government told a court Friday.
Protesters challenging Melbourne CBD’s ‘designated area’ status claim enhanced Victoria Police search powers were a “significant” breach of their rights, a court heard on the first day of trial Thursday.
A constitutional challenge to the declaration of the Melbourne CBD as a ‘designated area’ has been attacked by the state government as “hypothetical”, but the case is set to move ahead despite an early end to the designation.
Protesters bringing a constitutional challenge over the declaration of the Melbourne CBD as a ‘designated area’ want to join a third person to the case after the police assistant commissioner argued the current applicants have no standing.