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A former manager of BBY has been handed a two and half year sentence after pleading guilty to criminal charges following the stockbroking firm’s collapse.
Conservation group drops challenge to Woodside’s $16.5B Scarborough project
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The Australian Conservation Foundation has reached an agreement with Woodside Energy to drop proceedings over the company’s Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, which alleged the $16.5 billion joint venture could not go ahead until its climate impacts were assessed.
Visa’s payment token invention not patentable, delegate finds
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The patent office has rejected Visa’s application to patent a token system for securing customer data, finding the process did not address a technical problem or provide a technical solution.
Union loses challenge to Energy Australia’s super payments for shift workers
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The full Fair Work Commission has rejected a union’s challenge to a decision affirming Energy Australia’s practice not to make superannuation contributions on earnings for time off in lieu of overtime for shift workers.
Strip search class action attacks NSW’s ‘reasonable exercise of power’ defence
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The lead plaintiff in a class action alleging NSW Police conducted illegal strip searches at music festivals has argued the state cannot rely on a defence that the searches were a reasonable exercise of power, after a recent judgment found the defence does not apply to unlawful arrests.
‘Industrial scale forensic debacle’: Element Zero blasts Fortescue search orders
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Start-up Element Zero has attacked search orders won by Fortescue over the alleged misappropriation of the mining company’s confidential information by three former employees, calling the orders an “industrial scale forensic debacle” won on weak evidence and the failure to disclose material information.
HWL Ebsworth client rejected $1.35M offer to settle negligence case
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HWL Ebsworth has won indemnity costs against a former client who alleged the firm gave negligent advice over property in Parramatta’s ‘Auto Alley’, with a court saying the client was the “author of the outcome about which it complains” by rejecting a $1.35 million settlement offer.
ACT government wants out of public housing class action
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A class action on behalf of public housing tenants who were allegedly forced to relocate is facing a bid for summary judgment by the ACT government, which claims it is not the correct respondent.
iProsperity liquidators can prioritise $62.5M claims against Crown, Star: Full Court
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The former general manager of iProsperity has lost his challenge to the collapsed fund manager’s liquidators getting more time to investigate $18 million in payments he received, with the Full Court finding they were not wrong to prioritise investigations into $62.5 million in payments to Crown and The Star.
High Court asked to weigh in on scope of whistleblower protections
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Save (2) Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me A former debt collector who accused the ATO of using heavy handed debt collection tactics against taxpayers has asked the High Court to overrule a decision that found he was not immune from prosecution. In a decision handed down in June,…