Cat Fredenburgh

An appeals court has rejected a Sydney solicitor’s challenge to a finding that he engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct after he inaccurately recounted a judge’s comments in a letter to a costs assessor.

A Dentons client that paid $45 million for an 82-hectare Denham Court property that was only worth $10.8 million, in what a judge called a "brazen fraud", has sued the law firm for professional negligence.

A class action over Victoria's hotel quarantine debacle that settled for $125 million will seek a record $37.5 million cut for law firm Quinn Emanuel and $250,000 payment for the lead applicant, which was subjected to "public ridicule and hatred" during the matter.

The financial crimes regulator has called on banks to take action to address "systemic" weaknesses in the lending sector after it identified widespread mortgage fraud.

The funder that bankrolled a settled shareholder class action against directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco and KPMG may face a haircut to its proposed 35 per cent commission after a contradictor was appointed to scrutinise the reasonableness of the rate.

A group of shareholders is pushing Commonwealth Bank to take steps to outline how its financing will become deforestation-free, claiming the bank's disclosures have not captured deforestation risks.

A $27 million lawsuit by Dubber against former CEO Stephen McGovern and the software firm's solicitor has been stayed as the corporate cop pursues the company's auditor.

Lawyerly’s Litigation Rising Stars 2026 series will profile the top barristers and solicitors under 40 whose successes in the area of high-stakes commercial litigation belie their age.  

The former majority owner of NY-based Infrastructure Capital Holdings has won its bid for documents ahead of mediation in a suit alleging Foresight Group Holdings undervalued the company's investments in Kinetic and Zenith Energy, which sold for a combined $5.7 billion last year.

A group of shareholders is pushing Commonwealth Bank to take steps to outline how its financing will become deforestation-free, claiming the bank's disclosures have not captured deforestation risks.