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A judge’s appeal of a decision that found he unlawfully imprisoned a man for contempt and was liable for over $300,000 in damages may go straight to the High Court and should be heard before a similar suit by another man jailed by the judge, a court has heard.
Ten wants to stay a sex discrimination claim brought by journalist Tegan George in light of separate personal injury proceedings seeking damages from the broadcaster over PTSD allegedly caused by reporting from the 2019-2020 bushfires.
A class action on behalf of 121 children who allege they were wrongfully detained in adult prisons or immigration detention due to flawed age testing has settled for $27.5 million.
A former employee has brought proceedings against Woolworths, claiming the supermarket giant failed to properly address alleged sexual harassment in its “poor workplace culture".
A theatre company accused of discriminating against actress Christie Whelan Browne and subjecting her to repeated sexual harassment has dropped a bid to suppress parts of her claim to protect actor Craig McLachlan from distress and embarrassment.
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner has told a court a transgender woman who was excluded from female social network Giggle for Girls can bring a claim for gender identity discrimination under under Gillard-era amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act.
A group of former Jewish and Israeli students at Brighton Secondary College have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation and an apology from the Victorian government after a judge found the school principal failed to address racially-charged bullying and hundreds of cases of swastika graffiti.
A psychiatrist who gave expert evidence in a lawyer’s human rights case against his former employer cannot be sued for negligence because he is protected by witness immunity, a judge has found.
The QCAT has cleared conservative activist Lyle Shelton of vilification in relation to negative online posts he made about a drag queen story hour at a Brisbane library.