The Liberal Party-connected Menzies Research Institute said it found four cases of firms linked to class action lawsuits having previously publicly acknowledged they had received funding from sovereign wealth funds, raising concerns about foreign influence.
It was 9.48am when a perfectly aimed missile dropped into the inboxes of most Slater + Gordon employees. Then all hell broke loose.
Sally Dowling SC has refused to confirm whether she is cooperating with a police investigation into an extraordinary leak of legally restricted material from within her office.
The NSW Bar Council has dropped two complaints that accused chief prosecutor Sally Dowling SC of attempting to influence the judiciary, claiming it does not have the jurisdiction to determine whether her actions amount to unsatisfactory professional conduct.
The companies face consumers who allege they lost nest eggs on a now-suspended private fund with links to under-fire property developer Paul Chiodo.
This is what the next government needs to do to counter the plummeting level of trust in Australia’s court system.
A former Slater + Gordon employee whose name appears in the metadata of a payroll spreadsheet sent in a company-wide email claims someone may have impersonated her, as dozens of staff face investigation for forwarding the email outside the law firm.
In an extraordinary opening address to the court, the crown prosecutor conceded the case had no prospects of a conviction, as the judge questioned why the matter was brought in the first place.
The NSW prosecution office dropped 17 rape cases following an almost year-long audit into sexual assault matters.
The executive who says she was falsely accused of sending a ‘malicious’ email to Slater + Gordon staff is expected to take legal action against the top-tier law firm after it failed to protect her.
International law experts have ramped up pressure on Labor for abandoning the party’s decades-long opposition to mandatory minimum sentences, by reporting the government to the UN.
The AFP says it is working through documents and statements from more searches it carried out after a raid of PwC headquarters, as part of its investigation into the tax scandal.
A sacked executive of Mike Cannon-Brookes who used a personal email to send 1000 files to Annie Cannon-Brookes must hand over his phone and other devices after being accused of leaking confidential information.
Upset staff at Slater + Gordon are comparing salaries after a spreadsheet was sent out in a ‘malicious’ email.
The Federal Court case, launched in 2022, has been delayed again after MasterCard only produced 900 documents of the 10,000 required.
The email, purportedly sent by the outgoing chief people officer, contained employee salary information, explosive allegations of dysfunction within the firm, and savage personal critiques of many colleagues.
Fortrend Securities boss Joe Forster has been dealt a double blow in two cases against former staff, now at rival firm Shaw and Partners.
An email purportedly sent by a senior Slater + Gordon executive to another staffer, containing explosive allegations of dysfunction and savage personal critiques, has been denounced by the embattled law firm.
Australia’s largest super fund has been fined after failing to merge duplicate accounts, leading to about $69m in losses for more than 90,000 members.
Only former chief executive Matt Bekier is now likely to take the stand as ASIC wraps up its case against him and other former Star executives.
A barrister with a thick Scottish brogue who became a lawyer after falling in love with the television drama LA Law is leading one of the corporate watchdog’s biggest cases of the past decade.
The investigation has revolved around the alleged leak by the office of the DPP to a commercial radio outlet of legally restricted information about an underage Aboriginal offender.
The Albanese government is under pressure to honour its pledge to set up a federal judicial commission following a High Court decision that protects judges from being personally sued.
Punishment will not be enough when it comes to dealing with the Bankstown Hospital’s two nurses who made anti-Semitic threats. We need better civics education in our schools.
Star Entertainment executives suggested using receipts for private jets, yachts and diamonds to prove funds were not being transferred from China to its casinos for prohibited gambling.
The High Court has overturned a landmark case that had allowed a judge to be personally sued.
Executives at Star Entertainment were “incurious and complacent” about money laundering risks including bags of cash secretly delivered to a private gaming salon, a court has been told.
A young girl is raised in two different cultures, by different parents. Then she dies. Who decides what happens next?
R.M. Williams is facing a legal stoush in its spiritual home of Adelaide with its former landlord taking it to court for about $200,000 in disputed rent and other costs.
Once a prospective cattle baron, the tale of Sam Mitchell is almost over as he’s chased by bankruptcy trustees and the tax office for millions of dollars allegedly spirited away from creditors.
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