The Full Bench of Fair Work Australia (FWA) has overturned the decision which held that a dispute resolution term in an enterprise agreement must allow for disputes to be settled by arbitration, whether the parties want to or not.
3 Mar 2010
The Federal Government has released exposure drafts of legislation for the ownership and governance of the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) and access to the wholesale services it will provide.
26 Feb 2010
The Australian Federal Court has held that Telstra's phone directories are not literary works protected by the Copyright Act because there is no clear authorship and no originality, throwing into doubt the copyright protection for any database.
11 Feb 2010
On 25 January 2010, the United States Bankruptcy Court handed down its much-anticipated decision in relation to an action brought in that court by two Lehman Brothers entities against BNY Corporate Trustee Services Limited.
5 Feb 2010
The landmark copyright decision in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd (No. 3) [2010] FCA 24 means that an ISP will not be liable for copyright infringement merely for providing access to the internet.
4 Feb 2010