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Cryptocurrency lender Helio Lending Pty has been slapped with a non-conviction bond for falsely claiming that it held an Australian credit license.
Jones Day snags M&A lawyer from Latham & Watkins
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Jones Day has added a corporate transactions counsel who spent 12 years working in New York, most recently at Latham & Watkins LLP, to join its Sydney team.
Pauline Hanson wins reversal of $250,000 defamation award for Brian Burston
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has succeeded in overturning a defamation judgment requiring her to pay $250,000 in damages to former colleague Brian Burston, with the Full Federal Court finding an allegation of sexual abuse against Burston was substantially true.
Deloitte settles class action over Hastie audits
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Deloitte has settled a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie, a case which dragged on for six years as the accounting firm unsuccessfully fought to shield its audit reports.
Norovirus class action defeats Carnival’s latest strike-out bid
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A class action against Carnival over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship has defeated the cruise operator’s second strike out bid, with a judge saying the failure to identify what exactly went wrong “may not be fatal” to the case.
Seven, Stokes keep up fight to shield emails with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers
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Seven Network and owner Kerry Stokes are seeking to challenge a ruling ordering them to produce thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as Nine tallies its costs of successfully defending the former soldier’s defamation action.
Court strikes out pilot’s claims that Qantas workplace was ‘hostile to women’
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Qantas has succeeded in attacking claims that it created a workplace that was “hostile to women”, leveled in a former female pilot’s sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit.
Plastic surgeon awarded $50,000 for nose job patient’s negative review
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A court has awarded a plastic surgeon $50,000 after finding he was defamed by a patient who left him a one-star review online.
Chatime boss liable for underpayments despite ignorance of unlawful activity, court says
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A court has found the managing director of teahouse franchise Chatime liable for the underpayment of staff, despite accepting that he believed the company’s wage system was not unlawful.
Best & Less to backpay workers $5.2M in agreement with FWO
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Retailer Best & Less will back-pay staff over $5.2 million as part of an undertaking to the Fair Work Ombudsman, after an internal review found salaried managers were not paid enough to cover their entitlements.