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Face to face teaching hours teacher fails to prove excessive teaching load

  • Gadens Lawyers
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  • Australia
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  • March 5 2013

A teacher has failed in his claim for damages for stress and breach of contract when he alleged that his face-to-face teaching load was excessive

Australian same-sex sexual harassment case against former high official to continue

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 21 2012

The former aid to former Australian Federal Speaker Peter Slipper, who sued him for alleged sexual harassment, said that he will appeal the recent adverse

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Groundbreaking ruling on mutual trust and confidence

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • July 2 2012

A NSW Supreme Court of Appeal bench of five judges recently delivered a groundbreaking decision on implied terms of mutual trust and confidence

The value of the truth plaintiffs’ credibility

  • McInnes Wilson Lawyers
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • May 9 2012

In April 2012, the Cairns Supreme Court handed down the decisions of Hosmer v Cook Shire Council

NSW police officer awarded damages for psychological injuries stemming from allegations of police corruption

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
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  • September 20 2010

In the recent case of Reeves v State of New South Wales 2010 NSWSC 611, the Supreme Court of New South Wales held that the Police Force of New South Wales (Police Force) owed the plaintiff, Mr Reeves, a duty of care and awarded general damages of $150,000 as well as damages for past and future economic losses calculated to the age of 65

Can a workplace policy discriminate?

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • May 27 2010

Making assumptions about employee's medical condition, together with flawed workplace policies, can leave an employer at risk of discrimination claims

UWA turns grey ownership of IP

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 12 2010

This morning (12 February 2010), the High Court of Australia refused the University of Western Australia's application for special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court's decision

Comcare prosecutes for food allergy death

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 21 2009

In Comcare v Commonwealth of Australia (2009) 257 ALR 462, the Federal Court of Australia fined the Commonwealth $210,100 following a prosecution brought against it by Comcare for a contravention of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991 (Cth) (the OHS Act) by the Australian Army Cadets (AAC

University found to not have any implied rights of ownership of its employee's invention: University of Western Australia v Gray

  • Hall & Wilcox
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 10 2009

The Federal Court's 2008 decision in University of Western Australia v Gray (No 20) challenged the long-held assumption that a university would implicitly own the rights to any intellectual property developed by an academic who conducts research for the university whilst they are an employee

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