Law firm Levitt Robinson has filed a second class action against the Western Australian government on behalf of inmates in the state’s Banksia Hill detention centre alleging unlawful disability and age discrimination.
Independent member for Sydney Alex Greenwich is preparing to bring a defamation case against One Nation’s NSW leader, Mark Latham, after he published a homophobic post on Twitter last month.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found Channel Nine breached privacy rules in a story on A Current Affair about a violent dispute between neighbours in regional New South Wales that went viral on YouTube.
International law firm HFW is expanding its Australian employment practice, hiring leading industrial relations, safety and employment law solicitor Simon Billing in Perth.
An appeals court has found a seven-year non-competition clause in US tech giant DXC Eclipse’s agreement with the former director of Melbourne software firm Sable37, which it acquired in 2018, was unreasonable.
Texas oil giant Tri-Star has lost its bid for a referral in a dispute with natural gas exporter Australia Pacific LNG over several coal seam gas fields in Queensland and $7.6 billion in share acquisitions.
National law firm Meridian Lawyers has nabbed two senior practitioners from McCabes for its insurance group, less than a month after luring 14 lawyers and staff from its competitor.
Rules limiting the amount of pro bono work in-house lawyers can perform should be updated, Australia leading body representing corporate counsel has advised, citing concerns that the restrictions will discourage young lawyers from working in-house.
A city council in the Hunter Valley region is set to appeal to the High Court a decision that found it was liable to pay a flight company over $3.6 million in damages for wasted expenditure after it repudiated a contract to lease land at the local airport.
The University of Technology Sydney will backpay staff more than $4.4 million, plus $1.3 million in superannuation and interest, after agreeing to an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.