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The Commonwealth has told a court it needs to interview 32 people before responding to a Fair Work Act case by Brittany Higgins’ former manager, Fiona Brown, who became a key witness in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial.
Harvey Norman is facing a class action over 'interest-free' ads which the Federal Court has found were misleading.
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The daughter of a Villawood director accused of a fraudulent design to divert valuable management fees for a development in Victoria has invoked her privilege against self-incrimination over the developer’s concerns that she may have destroyed evidence.
A lesbian group that wants to exclude transgender and bisexual people has argued the Sex Discrimination Act prioritises the protection and advancement of human rights of biological women.
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A suit against the City of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory has been gutted, with a court substantially striking out the pleading.
Courts continue to disagree on the meaning of 'serious harm' in defamation law, a threshold test introduced in 2021 that has raised the bar for plaintiffs claiming a publication has damaged their reputations.
A Melbourne gynaecologist faces a possible class action by women who claim they underwent unnecessary endometriosis surgeries.
Litigation funder ILP, which has sought an injunction to stop tech investor CPC from terminating their agreement for failure to pay legal fees in its patent case against Apple, has rejected claims it is "hedging its bets".
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Property developer Castleway has succeeded in its challenge to a ruling limiting its payment entitlements under a development agreement with TPC Group.
The Fair Work Commission's workload has jumped by 70 per cent over the past three years, and ChatGPT and other AI platforms are directly to blame, the head of the workplace umpire says.