Date: 14 Jan 2011, Filed under: Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Discrimination, Workplace Privacy, Human Rights
From time to time, clients have asked whether they can terminate an employee’s employment on the basis that they have discovered that when the employee...
Date: 05 Mar 2007, Filed under: Media Law, Privacy & Surveillance, Human Rights
You were aware of someone there with a video camera
Date: 09 Jun 2004, Filed under: Human Rights
A recent Federal Court decision has provided some guidance for insurers on the interpretation of the exemption for insurance found in section 46 of the...
Date: 14 Apr 2004, Filed under: Divorce, Human Rights
This is a detailed case summary of Re Alex: Hormonal Treatment For Gender Identity Dysphoria [2004] FamCA 297. This summary has been prepared by the Family...
Date: 01 Apr 2004, Filed under: Contract Drafting & Disputes, Children, Entertainment, Sports, Leisure, Human Rights
Following the demise of HIH and the enactment of New South Wales's Civil Liability Act ("CLA") specialist insurance solicitors at Abbott Tout increasingly...
Date: 23 Mar 2004, Filed under: Entertainment, Sports, Leisure, Human Rights
In May 2003, a junior Australian Rules football league in the Melbourne suburbs banned a 13-year-old footballer from playing in its competition. Not for...
Date: 02 Dec 2003, Filed under: Industrial Relations, Human Rights
The High Court has endorsed a balanced view to discrimination complaints in accepting that a school is entitled to rely on bad behaviour to exclude a difficult...
Date: 14 Oct 2003, Filed under: Banking & Finance, Business Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Business & Commercial Law, Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Human Rights
Controversy continues to surround restructuring as a means of reducing union influence in the workplace. Jamie Wells reviews a Federal Court decision involving...
Date: 21 Aug 2003, Filed under: Human Rights
Recovery for the damages of rearing a healthy but unplanned or unwanted child poses moral, ethical and legal questions of the most difficult kind. According...
Date: 20 Jun 2003, Filed under: Divorce, Human Rights, Immigration
This summary has been prepared by the Family Court to help explain the decision in B and B and Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous...
