The High Court has found that consumers can be protected even if they haven’t fully read their terms and even if they were outside of Australia when they accepted them.
Dual Geelong premiership player Max Rooke in 2007.
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A sports law expert and ex-Victorian WorkCover Authority general counsel explains why Australia’s professional players aren’t covered by the same injury rules as other workers – unlike in New Zealand.
Language is the primary way for communities to promote and safeguard their knowledge and heritage.
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The destruction of IAP residential school records and media reports that continually emphasize compensation will ensure that if remembered, the process will be remembered through a colonial gaze.
The government will repay interest and collection fees. What it hasn’t agreed to, yet, is the payment of damages.
Bushfire-related class action suits against the government have had little success in the past, but there are other benefits to pursuing a case.
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In a landmark case in the Netherlands, the courts have ordered the government to cut carbon emissions. A similar strategy would be difficult in Australia, but other legal options could bring change.
Robo-debt letters may not be just, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are illegal.
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Robodebt isn’t slowing down, and its being augmented with other ways of belittling beneficiaries.
Labor’s government services spokesman Bill Shorten and lawyer Peter Gordon announcing Gordon Legal’s robo-debt class action in Canberra on Tuesday.
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The case provided a platform to lay bare the ugly reality of conditions in detention, and the role of the Commonwealth and its contractors in producing and sustaining those conditions over many years.
The lead claimant in an equine influenza class action managed to avoid incurring a substantial costs order being made against them.
AAP/Sergio Dioniso
The failure to regulate litigation funders is becoming more problematic. This is because more funders, particularly from overseas, are entering the Australian market.
Ovaherero and Ovambanderu attending a council for dialogue about the genocide of 1904 in Berlin.
EPA/Rainer Jensen
Representatives of Namibian communities affected by the 1904-1908 genocide have filed a class action against Germany in the US seeking reparations for atrocities committed by Imperial Germany