QUBE has sought an appeal with the Fair Work Commission after it ordered the logistics company to reinstate and back pay six workers dismissed in mid-2021.
State government-owned Western Power was negligent and is partly liable for the January 2014 Perth Hills bushfire, a Court of Appeal decision found today.
After more than two decades with the state's Industrial Relations Commission, lawyer Stephen Kenner has been promoted to the role of chief commissioner.
Law firm Slater and Gordon is filing a class action against Commonwealth Bank, alleging that Australia's largest bank sold customers credit card and personal loan insurance that was worthless to them.
The biggest player in Australia's litigation funding market has supported new licensing rules proposed by the federal government while also pushing for the new requirements to be extended to law firms.
Western Power is seeking an order in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to recover its costs from a class action following the Parkerville bushfire in 2014.
Commonwealth Bank and its wealth management arm Colonial First State have been hit by a class action law suit over allegedly uncompetitive superannuation returns.
AMP has been hit with a fourth shareholder class action over the scandals revealed at the Financial Services Royal Commission and the resulting damage to the embattled financial giant's market value.
Shares in Vocus Goup have held steady despite a proposed class action alleging the telecommunications provider engaged in "misleading and deceptive conduct" and breached disclosure obligations.
The boss of beleaguered law firm Slater & Gordon has quit and the board will be cleaned out under a shake-up that passes almost full ownership of the company to its lenders.
Slater & Gordon shares have plumbed fresh depths yet again after the law firm reported a first-half loss of $425 million largely due to another $350 million write-down of its troubled UK business.
Thousands of aggrieved Slater & Gordon shareholders will be represented in a $250 million-plus class action against the law firm for wrongdoing including allegedly "blindsiding" them with bad news.
The Australian share market lost steam throughout the afternoon session to close slightly higher as gains in health care, resource and banking stocks offset losses in Woolworths and Telstra.
Slater & Gordon shares dropped nearly 18 per cent after the embattled law firm announced a $1.02 billion full-year loss and the continued underperformance of its troubled UK business.
Slater & Gordon is a step closer to being served with shareholder class action papers after JustKapital Litigation Partners and Woodsford Litigation Funding joined forces to fund proceedings against the embattled law firm.
Yan Lui has resigned from his positions of chief executive officer and Trinidad general manager at Range Resources. Mr Liu will remain on the board of director as a non-executive director.
Law firm Slater & Gordon, which is renowned for backing shareholder class actions, could be on the receiving end after competing firm ACA Lawyers flagged possible action.
The liquidators of failed engineering contractor Forge Group have gained financial backing to pursue a claim worth about $200 million against Forge's former major shareholder.
Friction between the resources industry and the mining town of Newman has escalated following the state's decision to approve an extension for BHP Billiton's 1,200-bed Kurra camp.
Mining giant Rio Tinto appears to have put the kibosh on speculation it will anchor a major new commercial office tower at Elizabeth Quay, extending its lease at Central Park until 2030.
Perth now has the highest vacancy rate of any office market across capital cities in Australia, according to fresh research by JLL, with 16.6 per cent of commercial space in the CBD sitting empty.
Several former BHP Billiton employees made redundant from their positions at Mount Whaleback mine have engaged law firm Slater & Gordon to fight for their Newman homes amid claims the company altered aspects of its home ownership scheme.
Investors in collapsed engineering contractor Forge Group have been dealt more bad news, with the company's liquidators declaring shareholders' stock holdings are now worthless.
Litigation funder Bentham IMF and law firm Slater & Gordon will pursue a potential class action against failed engineering contractor Forge Group amid allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct by the company.
More than 50 former clients of Bell Potter Securities, including some from Perth, have launched a class action against the stockbroking firm alleging it engaged in wrongful conduct by encouraging them to invest in Progen Phamaceuticals.
