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A former Bureau of Meteorology senior executive was unfairly fired after taking a business-class trip to Paris, a court has found in a case that shines a light on the practice by government agencies to get around remuneration limits on public servants.
Asylum seekers who were put in immigration detention in South Australia can transfer their cases to the Federal Court to run their claims as a class action accusing the federal government of negligence and unlawful detention.
The High Court has refused special leave in a failed class action against Volkswagen over allegedly defective Takata airbags.
A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner who alleges he was sacked for complaining about Lendlease's "aggressive taxation position" has lost a bid to argue before the High Court that his claims are covered by new whistleblower protections.
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech to invalidate two patents for Crohn's disease drug Stelara, after reaching a licencing agreement over the medicine in the US.
Health law practitioners are grappling with “snowballing awards” in claims over psychiatric injuries, according to Sparke Helmore’s new health law partner.
A Melbourne orthopaedic clinic has lost its bid to register the name ‘Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic’ as a trade mark, with a judge finding the phrase was just an ordinary combination of words.
It's a case of déjà vu in a class action against engineering services company Worley, with shareholders heading back to the appeals court after losing a second trial in their drawn out fight over disclosure breaches.
Sydney financier First Class Capital has admitted it acquired three million shares in former market darling Big Un but has denied liquidators' claims that the purchase was part of a fraudulent design to inflate the share price ahead of the video start-up’s collapse.
Online broker International Capital Markets has been hit with a second class action for selling “excessively risky” derivative products known as contracts for difference to retail investors.