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Torts

VLS3 v Osborne

Historical sexual abuse claim partly proved. The Court found some abuse on Council grounds, awarded compensatory and aggravated damages, and entered judgment for $461,046.02.

  • Historical sexual abuse
  • Assault and battery
  • Credibility and reliability of evidence
  • Psychiatric injury
  • General damages
  • Aggravated damages
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Negligence

Pratt v Ditton

Employer negligence claim over a steel-beam crush injury succeeded. The Court found a breach of duty, no contributory negligence, and awarded $1,030,742.67.

  • Employer duty of care
  • Crush injury
  • Breach of duty
  • Causation
  • Contributory negligence
  • Assessment of damages
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Corporations law

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v AustralianSuper Pty Ltd

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v AustralianSuper Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 102

The Federal Court found AustralianSuper breached superannuation and financial services laws by failing to identify and merge duplicate accounts and to remediate affected members.

  • Civil penalty provisions
  • Trustee obligations
  • Remediation
  • Adverse publicity orders
  • Pecuniary penalties
  • Superannuation
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Employment law

State Wage Case 2024 (No 3)

State Wage Case 2024 (No 3) [2024] NSWIRComm 19

The Commission retained and renamed the wage-fixing framework as Award Making Principles, revised several principles, and directed submissions on the draft text.

  • Awards
  • Wage fixing principles
  • Minimum wage
  • Public sector bargaining
  • Superannuation
  • Equal remuneration
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Superannuation

Brady v NULIS Nominees (Australia) Limited in its capacity as trustee of the MLC Super Fund (No 4)

Brady v NULIS Nominees (Australia) Limited in its capacity as trustee of the MLC Super Fund (No 4) [2024] FCA 1374

The Federal Court considered whether NULIS could charge fees that helped fund commissions after a successor fund transfer, and whether that conduct breached trust, SIS Act or Corporations Act duties.

  • Breach of trust
  • Power of trustee under trust deed
  • Statutory trustee covenants (sis act)
  • Conflicted remuneration (corporations act)
  • Class action procedure
  • Successor fund transfers
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Superannuation

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Retail Employees Superannuation Pty Ltd

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Retail Employees Superannuation Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 1081

The Federal Court dismissed ASIC’s claim against REST over rollover practices and member representations concerning superannuation transfers and minimum balance requirements.

  • Misleading or deceptive conduct
  • Financial services regulation
  • Superannuation fund governance
  • Representations to fund members
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Superannuation
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['civil procedure' 'superannuation' 'commercial law']

Munich Reinsurance Company of Australasia Limited v AMP Limited

Munich Reinsurance Company of Australasia Limited v AMP Limited [2024] NSWSC 950

The Court struck out pleaded claims under s 55(3) of the SIS Act for want of a pleaded causal link between the alleged cove­nant breaches and the claimed losses.

  • ['pleadings amendment' 'striking out pleadings' 'summary disposal' 'superannuation trustee covenants' 'section 55(3) damages under the superannuation industry (supervision) act 1993 (cth)' 'causation of loss']
  • Pleadings
  • Strike-out
  • Summary-disposal
  • Superannuation
  • Causation
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['commercial and corporations']

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited [2024] FCA 850

Mercer admitted it misled consumers about Sustainable Plus superannuation options excluding alcohol, gambling and fossil fuel investments. The Federal Court imposed $11.3 million in penalties.

  • ['financial services' 'greenwashing' 'misleading or deceptive conduct' 'false representations' 'superannuation' 'environmental, social and governance (esg) claims']
  • Greenwashing
  • Misleading-or-deceptive-conduct
  • Financial-services
  • Superannuation
  • Esg-disclosure
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['employment and industrial law']

Local Government Engineers’ Association of New South Wales v MidCoast Council (No 3)

Local Government Engineers’ Association of New South Wales v MidCoast Council (No 3) [2024] NSWIRComm 1046

The Commission made an award dealing with superannuation absorbability for a limited group of MidCoast Council employees, directing the parties to consult on its terms.

  • ['awards and enterprise agreements' 'wage fixing principles' 'superannuation–award variations' 'industrial dispute resolution']
  • Industrial-relations
  • Enterprise-agreements
  • Superannuation
  • Award-variations
  • Wage-fixing-principles
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['administrative law' 'superannuation' 'insurance' 'corporations law']

Nguyen v Australian Financial Complaints Authority

Nguyen v Australian Financial Complaints Authority [2024] FCAFC 77

Full Court appeal about a superannuation death benefit turned on whether a text message and later suicide ended a de facto relationship before death.

  • ['afca external dispute resolution' 'death benefit nomination' 'de facto relationship termination' 'questions of law on appeal' 'fair and reasonable determination']
  • Superannuation
  • Death-benefit-nomination
  • De-facto-relationship
  • Administrative-law
  • Afca
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