Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of “inventing stories” to conceal facts that would support publisher Fairfax’s version of events concerning war crimes allegedly committed by the former SAS soldier in Afghanistan.
AMP and a number of its financial planning subsidiaries have launched a bid to declass a group proceeding jointly run by Piper Alderman and Shine Lawyers over allegedly excessive insurance premiums.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been hit with regulatory action by the Fair Work Ombudsman after it admitted to shortchanging thousands of full-time salaried managers to the tune of $390 million.
Juggling a promising legal career and being the mother of two small children, King & Wood Mallesons’ Kione Johnson, who was the lead senior associate for dam operator Seqwater in the complex Queensland floods class action, revels in the “constant state of chaos” of her daily routine.
Google has lost its challenge to a ruling that it pay a Melbourne gangland lawyer $40,000 for the results of an internet search that included a link to a defamatory article, with an appeals court affirming the search engine giant was a publisher of the results.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new chair Joseph Longo has defended his team’s work in reviewing the Nuix prospectus before the embattled tech company’s $2.9 billion float late last year.
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court it was “more than reasonable” for him to assume an unarmed Afghan man was a hostile insurgent because he saw another soldier shoot at the man first.
The High Court has denied a request from former senator David Leyonhjelm to challenge a ruling ordering him to pay $120,000 to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young for defaming her with “crass” and “obviously sexist” comments made in a series of interviews in 2018.
Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill has taken a swing at ASIC commissioner and former Macquarie general counsel Cathie Armour for failing to act on concerns raised prior to the $2.9 billion IPO of embattled technology company Nuix, which led to a $580 million payday for shareholder Macquarie.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking a $1.2 million penalty against Victorian electric utility Sumo Power for luring customers with the promise of discounts and low rates only to jack up their prices months later.