A class action on behalf of women injured by alleged defective pelvic mesh will not advise group members the estimated average return from the proceeds of a settlement against defunct device manufacturer TFS’ insurer because it would be “cruel”.
The legal industry is one of the most vulnerable to attack by ransomware, with over 200 attacks worldwide in three years, according to a recent report.
Casino operator Crown Resorts has agreed to backpay employees more than $1.2 million, after the company notified the Fair Work Ombudsman that it had underpaid workers at its Melbourne and Perth locations for almost six years.
A New South Wales developer will mount a challenge to a Full Court decision that tossed the ACCC’s competition case against NSW Ports over an agreement to privatise two ports, arguing the majority ruling was “plainly wrong”.
The NSW Supreme Court will welcome two prolific commercial silks to the bench, including a barrister known as an advocate for gender equality at the bar.
A judge has found that a Western Australian law firm can act for a doctor who has been sued for defamation despite having learned about the case from the plaintiff during a preliminary consultation.
The judge overseeing a class action against Monsanto over its weed killer has rejected the agrochemical giant’s application to amend the common questions to be decided at a liability trial to account for its alternative defence.
A court has ordered the estate of Frank Wilson, founder of failed sandalwood producer Quintis, to be sequestered in a claim brought by Quintis subsidiary Arwon to recover an unpaid $15 million debt.
A judge has expressed her concern over delays in a suite of cases filed against P&O Cruises by holidaymakers who were seriously injured in a fatal bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.
The Human Rights Law Centre has been given the go ahead to intervene as amicus curiae in the case of ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle, after a March ruling that the former debt collection officer could not rely on statutory whistleblower protections
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