Stories about: Minter Ellison

The publishers and author of the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography could be sued under Australian defamation laws if anyone in Australia read it online in the form of an e-book.

The Department of Human Services has appointed law firm Minster Ellison as legal advisor for the forthcoming Australian smartcard implementation, a combined health and social services access card to be introduced from 2008.

Law firm Minter Ellison has signed a deal with Australian document processing and exchange software company DocsCorp to buy 1900 licences of its pdfDocs software.

Litigation, or the threat of it, appears as an increasingly used ploy in vendorland as suppliers strive for the upper hand in dealings with customers. And signs emerge that this ugly trend - the flipside of customers suing vendors - has reached Australian shores.

With an existing internal document management system in place, legal firm Minter Ellison has become one of the largest local PDF production sites by rolling out a publishing application to some 1750 desktops.

Minter Ellison's new case management system has eliminated the paper trail of legal cases and projects and has powered up the collaboration level between lawyers and clients.

When businesses think about making their organisation 'disability-friendly', ramps for wheelchairs and accessible toilet facilities usually spring to mind. However, companies now need to turn their attention towards ensuring their Web sites are accessible for people with disabilities too. According to Patrizia Mercuri, employment and industrial relations partner for Minter Ellison, failure to do so could mean possible discrimination claims and damages payouts.

Australia needs a legal environment to support global e-trading

The new impost is doing more than creating pockets of pain in the e-commerce community. It is eating away at the Internet's fragile status as a semiprotected species in a tax-intensive world.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has offered to help write cyberlaws for a number of countries it says are lagging, including Australia and New Zealand.

Microsoft's planned appeal to yesterday's ruling that it broke a 110-year-old antitrust law could see the handing down of penalties suspended for up to two years, an industry lawyer has predicted.