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The Full Court has rejected an appeal by the tax office over the classification of a redundancy payment, finding that an early learning centre worker who was offered reduced hours and pay as part of a restructure was made redundant.
A judge has thrown out a class action led by the father of famed mining investor Nathan Tinkler over claims ASX-listed Whitehaven Coal failed to fulfil an implied term of a $150 million share subscription.
A law firm has lost its bid to stay a silk's case alleging he is owed a $280,400 cancellation fee for a class action in Queensland that was settled a month before trial.
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Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have filed a class action to force the removal of dumped asbestos waste, some 60 years after the Wittenoom asbestos mines closed and the town was struck from the map.
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A judge has struck out sections of natural gas exporter Australia Pacific LNG’s defence in Tri-Star’s long-running case over coal seam gas fields in Queensland, which centres on a $7.6 billion share sale to ConocoPhillips.
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The tax office has won the appointment of special purpose liquidators to entities behind a number of Queensland construction projects, as it seeks to claw back a claimed $16 million debt.
Former ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott has dropped a lawsuit alleging the bank breached the terms of a contract governing his departure when it denied him $13.5 million in bonus payments.
A judge has upheld IAG’s privilege claim over a technical paper prepared by an actuarial consultant, finding that the report was not merely forwarded to the legal team to cloak it in privilege.
Latitude Group says it will defend a "fundamentally flawed" class action over an allegedly misleading interest-free ad promotion by Harvey Norman that required customers to apply for a Latitude GO credit card.
McDonald’s has lost its bid to send a notice to group members foreshadowing its intention to apply for soft class closure in a representative case on behalf of 350,000 workers who were allegedly denied rest breaks.