A trade mark attorney has sued boutique IP firm Marquette, alleging she was fired for complaining about her treatment by a supervisor who had been practising as a lawyer for less than a year.
The Banksia Securities class action saga will return to the appeals court, with a lawyer indicating he plans to challenge last month’s ruling that found he knowingly assisted in a plot to defraud tens of thousands of investors in the collapsed lender.
A judge has admitted in a $2 million false imprisonment lawsuit against him that he had no power to sentence the owner of a Cairns tour company to 12 months in jail for contempt of court.
Media giant Nine has defended reporting that allegedly implied former Victorian Liberal party vice president Marcus Bastiaan engaged in illegal branch stacking, arguing the coverage was justified and that federal assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar was in on the scheme.
The ACCC’s practice of successively refining witness statements without saving draft versions was “quite unfair”, says a judge overseeing the competition regulator’s criminal cartel case over a botched ANZ share placement.
Lawyers for JPMorgan went to the ACCC’s office to review a draft statement of the investment bank’s then managing director Jeffrey Herbert-Smith, an immunity witness for the competition regulator in its troubled criminal cartel case over an ANZ share placement, a court has heard.
A Melbourne lawyer has been found guilty of 14 charges of professional misconduct for misappropriating trust funds and failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fees to seven barristers.
A judge has left open the possibility that aggregate damages could be awarded in a class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of 185,000 vehicle owners over their defective cars.
In a major blow to the competition regulatorās high-profile price-fixing case over ANZās $2.5 billion capital raising, prosecutors have dropped all charges against the bank and its group treasurer, Rick Moscati.
Crown Resorts has reached a $125 million settlement in a shareholder class action, avoiding a six-week trial scheduled to begin on Monday.