A federal court judge this week ruled that the dispute between the HR startup and ASX jobs giant will proceed to trial - as a top ASX analyst weighed in on the fight.
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Media lawyers' new public interest defence for defamation "has legs", and the "serious harm" might have helped Brittany Higgins.
Qantas’ shoddy apology for cutting 1,820 ground staff jobs in 2020 — and CEO Vanessa Hudson’s no-show in court — left Justice Michael Lee unconvinced.
The former political staffer's lawyer argued he had been denied natural justice at his high stakes defamation trial in a day in court.
A pivotal tweak to Australia’s competition rules in 2017 underpinned Epic’s Federal Court triumph over Apple and Google this week.
Justice Jacqueline Gleeson is shaping as a High Court swing vote, while Justice James Edelman seems content in his role as the bench's soloist.
Newly released court documents for the first time detail Employment Hero's version of the events leading up to its lawsuit against ASX-listed giant Seek, one of its own investors.
Litigation funders and lawyers are reaping the rewards of Australia’s class action system, while the clients they represent are often left with the scraps.
The High Court has launched a modern website, switched to LinkedIn and unveiled a national hotline — all part of a broader push to improve public access.
Traditional landowners in the Torres Strait have failed in an attempt to launch a class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth over climate change.
Australia's top judge, Stephen Gageler, has used his first Australian interview to warn that AI could strike at the heart of our adversarial system of justice.
Capital Brief's legal writer Michael Pelly speaks to the chief justice about the seismic impact of AI on the law and the changing face of the High Court.
Australia now has a statutory tort of privacy — but with broad exemptions for journalists, the media is unlikely to ever be caught in its net.
Chief Justice Stephen Gageler has been biting his tongue over Justice Simon Steward's opposition to the implied freedom of political communication. No longer.
The Samuel Griffith Society is modelling itself on the US Federalist Society, while facing backlash for hosting disgraced former judge Dyson Heydon.
