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Industrial law (Cth) – Nature of employment relationship – Employee or independent contractor – Where second appellant backpacker with limited work experience sought construction work from respondent – Where respondent in business of labour hire – Where …

Industrial law (Cth) – Payments relating to periods of industrial action – Where employer provided employees with accommodation under enterprise agreement – Where employees took "protected industrial action" within meaning of s 408 of Fair Work Act 2009 …

Industrial law (Cth) – General protections – Adverse action – Section 346(b) of Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) prohibits employer from taking adverse action against employee because employee engages in industrial activity or has engaged in industrial activity – …

Practice and procedure – Contempt of court – Discovery – Where proceeding brought under r 75.06(2) of Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2005 (Vic) ("Rules") to punish appellant for contempt of court – Where appellant is a corporation – Whether …

Administrative law – Constitutional writs – Where plaintiff made admissions in proceedings in Federal Court of Australia that, because of operation of s 793 of Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), it could be taken to have contravened s 500 of Act by conduct of its …

Industrial Law (Cth) – Australian Industrial Relations Commission - Certified Agreement - Dispute over application of Agreement - Local dispute - Whether s 89A of the WR Act operates to limit the powers exercisable by the Commission in discharging its …

CONWAY & ANOR. V. CONWAY & ANOR. …

Criminal law – Evidence – Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) – Unreliable evidence – Co offenders – Corroboration – Directions to jury regarding corroboration of evidence given by co-offenders. Evidence – Corroboration – Warning about acting on unreliable evidence – …

Criminal law – Sexual offences – Appeal against conviction – Admissibility of evidence – Where appellant convicted of sexual offences against child complainant – Where complainant previously sexually assaulted by another person – Where complainant …

COOK AND ANOTHER V. THE COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY LIMITED, AND HANSON …

Bankruptcy – Avoidance of settlement of property - Roll-over of superannuation entitlements - Superannuation entitlements applied in payment of contributions to other superannuation schemes - Whether settlements of property - Whether trustees were …