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COVID-19 vaccinations will begin this week, but most employers won’t be able to force staff to get the jab.
‘Novel and invasive’: Clive Palmer can’t get law firm docs for Queensland Nickel case
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Two Clive Palmer companies have again been blocked from accessing documents held by two law firms and a litigation funder to pursue a potential lawsuit against Queensland Nickel, with an appeal court dismissing the bid as “unmeritorious”.
Hewlett-Packard loses appeal over sales commissions it capped ‘at whim’
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IT giant Hewlett-Packard Australia has lost its appeal of a judgment requiring it to cough up $370,000 in unpaid commissions to a former sales executive after a court found the company was not entitled to retrospectively cap her incentive payments ‘at whim’.
‘If it seems creepy, it probably is’: Ex-High Court judge speaks out against sexual harassment
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Former High Court Justice Kenneth Hayne has called out the “continuing and pervasive” issue of sexual harassment in the legal profession, urging senior lawyers to stop abusing their power.
New evidentiary tool on cards as 7-Eleven class action judge hears first ever oral discovery bid
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A Federal Court judge overseeing two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven has heard a landmark application for pre-trial oral discovery that could create another tool for lawyers to source evidence otherwise blocked by confidentiality agreements.
In law firm trade mark battle, reputation in Melbourne merger work is key, court told
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Two law firms locked in a courtroom battle over their ‘C’ trade marks made up of concentric circles will move to mediation after one of the firms files “significantly more” evidence about their reputation in Melbourne, a court has heard.
HWL Ebsworth settles with partner who didn’t support IPO
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HWL Ebsworth has settled with a former partner who filed a lawsuit claiming the firm and managing partner Juan Martinez failed to pay her money she was owed because she did not support the law firm’s aborted plan to go public.
‘I’m not having vague excuses about COVID in the UK’: Judge slams ex-Linchpin director
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A judge will not let proceedings brought by ASIC against four former Linchpin Capital directors drag on, slamming a “vague” excuse from one of the directors, who awaits word from his insurers on whether his defence costs will be covered, that London is still in a state of “total confusion” due to COVID-19.
Herald Sun exec’s honest opinion defence survives in case by ex-Labor MP Melissa Parke
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Former Labor MP Melissa Parke has failed in her bid to strike down the honest opinion defence of Herald Sun executive Dr Colin Rubenstein in her lawsuit alleging the director defamed her in an email and article relating to her 2019 pre-selection speech.
Amazon computer patent ‘nothing more than a scheme’, IP Australia says
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IP Australia has rejected e-commerce giant Amazon’s patent application for a method of allocating resources in virtual computers, finding the patent’s claims were “nothing more than a scheme for scheduling work” and were not a manner of manufacture.