Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese and the Transport Workers Union have urged the government to regulate the gig economy following the deaths of five food delivery workers and a landmark ruling from the UK’s highest court that found Uber drivers are not independent contractors.
Historical legislation by the Morrison government requiring Google and Facebook to pay for news on their platforms has passed parliament after amendments were won by the digital giants.
ASIC has launched court proceedings against National Australia Bank accusing the bank of engaging in unconscionable conduct by charging more than $365,000 in fees to which it was not contractually entitled.
Fertility clinic Monash IVF says there are “serious questions” about whether a class action that accuses it of destroying viable embryos was validly commenced as a class action.
A lawyer who a judge accused of “abysmal arrogance and sense of privilege” has won her appeal of a ruling ordering her to pay $360,000 to her Balmain neighbour after a long-running property dispute culminated in an allegedly defamatory interview that was broadcast to over one million TV viewers on A Current Affair.
Missing Sydney businesswomen Melissa Caddick was “meticulous and systematic” in generating fake financial records but never made a single investment, pocketing tens of millions of dollars from unwitting family and friends, liquidators say.
A group representing insurers has filed another test case over pandemic coverage in business interruption policies, following a landmark loss in a test case concerning an infectious disease exclusion that could cost insurers $10 billion.
Two patent attorneys being sued by boutique IP firm Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys have hit back against claims they misused confidential information to poach clients, arguing the terms of the non-compete restraint in their employment contracts were “unclear”, “unreasonable” and “unenforceable”.
The first ever application for a group costs order will be heard in class actions against ANZ and Westpac, and the judge weighing the application has urged the parties to think carefully about the evidence they will submit in support of their bid for a cut of any settlement or judgment.
For two and a half years, law firm Baker McKenzie represented a client in class action litigation over allegedly defective pelvic mesh products that did not exist, a court has heard.
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