Spring is here! This past week, a state’s chief justice advocated for an overhaul of PLT, and more time was granted to a firm and administrators in a high-profile class action. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.
In a scathing judgment, the Federal Court sent the underpayment proceedings against Coles and Woolworths back to a case management hearing to determine a number of outstanding legal issues, including a lack of factual foundations to support specific allegations.
A costs decision in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation proceedings turned on whether he knew the imputations to be true, including his claim of ambiguity towards the murder of an old man and the execution of another man with a prosthetic leg.
A Victorian lawyer has made Australian legal history – for all the wrong reasons – becoming the first practitioner to face professional sanctions for using artificial intelligence in court.
Gilbert + Tobin has expanded its practice with Daniel Moloney (pictured) as a new partner in its disputes and investigations team in Melbourne.
Australia clearly needs to increase competition and thereby its productivity – if not, we are going to be left behind, and our group’s focus will continue to advocate for an immigration policy that helps Australia attract and retain the best talent in the world, writes Farhan Rehman.
Despite the Commonwealth Bank’s partial success on appeal, the Federal Court ordered that a shareholder class action relating to disclosure failures be remitted to a single judge.
A recent influx in class actions filings – with more proceedings having been filed in FY2024–25 than in any previous financial year – highlights the pressure on lawyers to wade through a dispute resolution environment that gets ever more complex.
UK-based digital law firm arch.law has launched a new sports agency practice, appointing a leading sports lawyer alongside four new team members to drive its strategic expansion.
The Federal Court could award $475 million to victims of the Coalition’s controversial robodebt scheme, creating what would be Australia’s largest-ever class action settlement.
