Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell hit with $185,000 penalty over workplace breaches
“From the liability judgment [of Judge Driver]it is difficult to discern on any basis upon which [the company] ... instituted the cross-claims other than Mr Atanaskovic's own personal animus towards Mrs Kelly,” Given said.loadingIn his earlier judgment, Driver said: "Mrs Kelly resigned because she could no longer bear the continuing denigration of her by Mr Atanaskovic."He said that in “former times, Mr Atanaskovic would be described as a person who does not suffer fools gladly. In modern parlance, he would be described as a bully. That is the description which I prefer.”Emails tendered in court show Atanaskovic called Kelly a “maliciously intermeddling fool” and a “lazy incompetent”, among other insults.In an email to a partner, copied to Kelly, Atanaskovic referred to Kelly and "menstrual based cycles".“The barb was directed at…