A Jewish partner who is suing the world’s largest law firm over bullying allegations and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories did so in breach of a deal, new tranche of documents reveals.
Those who failed to enforce the law against terrorist sympathisers in Sydney and Melbourne over the weekend have some explaining to do.
Ex-Commonwealth Bank IT executive Jon Waldron has been handed a minimum sentence of four years after accepting bribes and profiting off his position.
The first in a series of court cases against businesses offering shady high-interest loans, and dodgy second-hand car dealers targeting vulnerable Australians, is about to start.
Just like the first version of the federal government’s plan to outlaw online misinformation, the revised Bill is imprecise, vague, and can be altered at ministerial whim.
Allegations gold miner Newmont did not take site safety concerns seriously have been levelled by one of the company’s former executives.
The international law firm claims its Australian chair Doug Stipanicev wasn’t acting on behalf of the company when conducting inquiries into the alleged misconduct of a former property partner, the Federal Court has heard.
The local chief of the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, who has been accused of sending anti-vax and anti-Semitic material to a partner, once ended an all-staff town hall with a slogan associated with the far-right movement | WATCH
Former crypto executive Caroline Ellison, who testified against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been sentenced to two years’ jail for her role in one of the largest ever financial frauds.
The funds manager has been slapped with a court ordered penalty after it was found guilty of greenwashing its ethically sourced $1bn-plus index fund.
The local chief executive of the world’s largest law firm has been accused of sending an email containing anti-Semitic material, promoting conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and endorsing claims the judicial system is ‘corrupt’, in a Federal Court lawsuit.
The competition regulator is pursuing Coles and Woolworths over misleading discounts, with the ACCC chief saying the issue is as important as the so-called Qantas ghost flights case.
SA is poised to become the latest state to ban gay conversion therapy, despite concerns raised by religious leaders the proposed changes will remove the rights of parents and impinge on religious freedoms.
The Mining and Energy Union has been hit with fines over ‘scab’ signs and verbal abuse of non-union workers during the heated Oaky North industrial action in 2017.
A second law firm has launched a competing class action against Harvey Norman for selling allegedly useless warranties to customers.
Those calling for the dismissal of Renee Leon as vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University are thoroughly misguided. This is the woman who stopped Robodebt and was sacked for her trouble.
A Melbourne man linked with the ASIC investigation into Keystone and Paul Chiodo has had his assets frozen.
Kerri Judd’s appointment to the Victorian Supreme Court bench has been celebrated by senior legal minds, the state opposition and staunch critics, who hope the appeals process will hold her accountable.
Discrimination class actions are expected to explode under a new bill which would see employers pick up the cheque for unmeritorious proceedings.
The rich lister is being sued by a company linked with the late Jonathan Hallinan, and along with builder Obaid Naqebullah is being chased for damages by owners of an apartment block in Melbourne’s blue chip suburb of Brighton.
Julian Wright sold his stake in Wright Prospecting – now worth billions – for just $6.8m and had accused his siblings of defrauding him out of the family empire.
A fight over the ‘seek’ trademark has been bubbling away for years between the $8bn Australian job search company and an American competitor.
Most of August’s criminal roll call in the Northern Territory Supreme Court contained scenes of such graphic violence they might have attracted a warning, were they not so depressingly mundane: adult Aboriginal men inflicting extreme violence on Aboriginal women.
Why Aboriginal defendants should be heard before mixed jury; a new partner at Herbert Smith Freehills; and a besieged NSW magistrate quietly resigns.
The federal Attorney-General has made the right move with hate-speech laws which target the most serious threat confronting the Jewish community.
Former Star Entertainment directors being sued over claims they failed to halt money laundering risks and criminal links are on track to be tried by ASIC in February.
What happened to millions of dollars in super investments which flowed to a web of companies linked with Melbourne property developer Paul Chiodo? An ASIC probe reveals the money trail.
A Federal Court judge has savaged lawyers for delaying a lawsuit brought against Super Retail and missing court timetables, describing the setbacks as ‘unacceptable’.
Non-union members were allegedly subjected to throat-slashing gestures during 2017 protests sparked by an industrial dispute with the Mining and Energy Union, a court has heard.
Aboriginal defendants forced to appear before all-white juries are hindered by a criminal justice system that fails to properly represent them, a former Supreme Court justice says.
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