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The daughter of NRL great Mark Geyer has been awarded $125,000 in a defamation case against the owner of an NRL Memes page over a post wrongfully claiming she was involved in the Tyrone May sex scandal.
‘I didn’t put two and two together’: Lawyer says he never caught on to misconduct in Banksia case
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Solicitor Alex Elliott has said it never clicked with him that members of the legal team running the Banksia class action were misleading an appeals court when his father — the mastermind behind the alleged deception — told him to sign cheques for lawyers that they could not cash.
ASIC won’t challenge loss in Tennis Australia case, but more claims may be coming
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ASIC will not appeal a Federal Court decision tossing the majority of its case against former Tennis Australia director Harold Mitchell and accusing the regulator of “confirmatory bias” in bringing the case, but has foreshadowed fresh claims related to allegedly inconsistent statements given during its investigation.
Opal Tower concrete manufacturer appeals loss to insurer over coverage of legal bills
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The prefab concrete specialist behind Sydney’s Opal Tower has appealed a ruling letting its insurers off the hook to pay costs in advance incurred in defending cross-claims in two lawsuits over the ill-fated tower.
NSW can’t shield docs in ACCC competition case over ports privatisation
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The NSW government cannot assert public immunity over cabinet documents sought in a case brought by the ACCC over an allegedly anti-competitive agreement for the privatisation of Port Botany and Port Kembla.
Gap wins opposition to ‘clothing the gap’ trade mark by Aboriginal rights group
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International retail giant Gap has successfully opposed the registration of ‘clothing the gap’ as trade mark by an Aboriginal-owned social enterprise company which campaigns to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
Slater & Gordon strikes out bullying cross-claim in client poaching case
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Slater and Gordon has won a bid to strike out parts of a cross-claim seeking injury compensation for alleged bullying at the law firm brought by a solicitor accused of stealing clients after jumping ship.
Test case filed against Qantas over ‘unlawful’ job outsourcing
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Qantas has been hit with a test case to determine whether axing 2,000 ground staff and replacing them with “insecure” labour hire workers is unlawful.
HWL Ebsworth defeats negligence lawsuit over Sydney land tender
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HWL Ebsworth has successfully defended a negligence lawsuit over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned Sydney land to property developer PPK Group, with a court finding that the developer was actually “better off” because of the transaction.
Routine email destruction ‘bombshell’ on eve of Banksia funder’s death just a ruse, court told
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The funder accused of a fraudulent scheme to pocket inflated fees from the Banksia Securities class action produced less than 200 documents to the contradictor in the case and invented a story about a routine email purging practice to explain the discovery hole, a court has heard.