Toll road operator Transurban denies that the former head of legal for its West Gate Tunnel project exercised a workplace right when she complained that there was a “culture of fear and intimidation” on the project’s commercial team and that the team was suffering from “chaos and dysfunction”.
The lead applicant in a class action over the alleged unlawful detention of 240 Indonesian children and the Commonwealth are locked in a battle over the construction of a $27.5 million settlement reached last year.
A judge has dismissed a recusal application in an employment case against Laing O’Rourke Australia, which alleged an email from his associate inferred misconduct by a barrister and a Mills Oakley solicitor representing the construction company.
An advocate for women at the Bar and an expert in public law have been appointed to serve as judges on the Federal Court.
The NSW Supreme Court would have the power to deal with a contingency fee order made in a class action against KPMG if the accounting firm won its application to move the case from Victoria, making the existence of the order a neutral factor in the transfer bid, the federal Attorney-General has told the High Court.
BHP wants to appeal a decision giving a class action the OK to fix what a judge accepted was an “inadvertent mistake” that resulted in a ruling — itself the subject of an appeal — which limited the group member definition.
An appeals court has found that the ACT legal complaints body was entitled to bring a second complaint against a lawyer after a first complaint about the same conduct was summarily dismissed, rejecting an argument that retreading the same ground would be oppressive.
NSW’s workplace health and safety regulator is conducting inquiries into Nine Entertainment amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour by its former news director, as several women in the TV industry mull sexual harassment and discrimination claims.
Brisbane restaurant Establishment 203 has hit back at a trade mark suit brought by Sydney hospitality mogul Justin Hemmes, telling a court that his ‘Establishment’ trade mark should be canceled.
A Wollongong wills and estates solicitor has been struck from the roll, with the NSW Supreme Court finding it was warranted given the seriousness and extent of the offending, as well as the solicitor’s initial reticence to cooperate with the investigation.
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