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Overbearing wife is no grounds for dismissal
- Piper Alderman
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- Australia
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- September 22 2010
Commissioner Roberts described the wife of the Applicant in Lindsay Wade v Murray Security Services as "an aggressive serial pest" to the Respondent security company (MSS) but did not allow her actions to be imputed onto her husband for the purpose of terminating his employment
Payback for bullies
- Piper Alderman
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- Australia
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- May 25 2010
The Melbourne Magistrate's Court has sent a strong message against bullying in the workplace after convicting and fining a company and four individuals responsible for workplace bullying that ultimately led to the suicide of 19-year-old Brodie Panlock in 2006
Federal government steps in to overturn Sons of Gwalia ruling
- Piper Alderman
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- Australia
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- February 17 2010
The High Court of Australia's Sons of Gwalia Ltd v Margaretic (Sons of Gwalia) decision recognised an aggrieved shareholder's claim for damages (in relation to the acquisition of shares) on equal footing with those of an insolvent company's other unsecured creditors
Summons for public examinations have extraterritorial effect
- Piper Alderman
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- Australia
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- September 15 2009
The significant increase in the number of companies passing into liquidation in the current economic climate has focused Courts on whether they can summons a non-resident
Sons of Gwalia and the CAMAC report implications for shareholders and creditors
- Piper Alderman
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- Australia
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- August 12 2009
On 31 January 2007 the High Court of Australia handed down the reasoning for its decision in Sons of Gwalia Ltd v Margaretic
