New judgments
Thu Sep 12 2019Bell Lawyers Pty Ltd v Pentelow [2019] HCA 29 - Chorley exception, "Treating both the principle and the exception as part of the common law of Australia, it is entirely appropriate for this Court in its capacity as ultimate custodian of the contemporary common law of Australia now to take the step foreshadowed in Cachia of determining that the exception to the general principle should be abandoned"
Brisbane City Council v Amos [2019] HCA 27 - limitation of actions
Carden v Vallelonga [2019] WASC 289 - dispute relating to cooking smells, cigarette smoke, garden maintenance, noise and light
Jeremy Lee v Superior Wood Pty Ltd [2019] FWCFB 2946 - dismissal for refusing to use a biometric scanner in the workplace was unfair
Lee v Lee & Ors; Hsu v RACQ Insurance Limited; Lee v RACQ Insurance Limited [2019] HCA 28 - insurance, motor vehicles, personal injury, "contrary to compelling inferences", "glaringly improbable"
Rumble v The Partnership trading as HWL Ebsworth Lawyers [2019] FCA 1409 - industrial law, casual employee, dismissal, whether actions taken because of applicant's political opinion