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A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.
‘Chickens coming home to roost’: NSW faces multiplying claims by junior doctors
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The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation.
Wotton + Kearney opens Adelaide office, nabs Sparke Helmore special counsel
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Insurance law firm Wotton + Kearney has opened its seventh office across Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Adelaide to meet local client demand and allow lawyers to work from their home town after the pandemic.
Victoria’s triple-zero operator faces class action investigation
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Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority may be hit with a class action over alleged systemic failures in its ambulance call handling operations that may have led to at least 15 deaths.
Lawyer who refused to pay silk engaged in professional misconduct, tribunal finds
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A lawyer who failed to pay $23,000 in fees to senior counsel and made a groundless complaint to the bar association to use as a “bargaining chip” engaged in professional misconduct, a tribunal has found.
Insurer Bond & Credit Company points finger at Greensill Group
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Insurer Bond & Credit Company has denied it owes damages over the collapse of the Greensill group, saying it issued a trade credit policy at the centre of four lawsuits because the supply chain financing firm concealed its risks and made fraudulent misrepresentations.
Forex Capital liquidators win ‘urgent’ order for $69.5M distribution to customers
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Forex Capital Trading liquidators have won an “urgent” bid for orders allowing them to distribute $69.5 million to 8,600 former customers of the derivatives trader which allegedly gave misleading advice on products described as “little more than gambling”.
‘Hold Crown to account’: Victoria proposes tougher gambling laws
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The Victorian government has unveiled new laws that would give the state’s gambling regulator enhanced powers to take action against Crown Melbourne.
Man suing judge for unlawful imprisonment blasts ‘hopeless’ defence
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The state of Queensland has brought a “hopeless” defence in a $2.5 million suit alleging a Federal Circuit judge unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt after he failed to comply with an order for particulars, a court has heard.
Full clinical trial not needed for Parkinson’s drug patent, IP Australia says
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An IP Australia delegate has rejected German drug maker Ever Neuro Pharma’s claim that extensive experimental evidence was needed to prove the usefulness of a Parkinson’s drug developed by UK-based Britannia Pharmaceuticals.