Cindy Cameronne

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.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as it fights a class action’s appeal.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as the court mulls whether to revive a class action by tower residents.

A former director of property developer Villawood has argued a judge should disqualify himself from hearing a contempt case after finding he gave false instructions to his Mills Oakley solicitor.

A senior judge has urged lawyers and judges to “be in the vanguard” of adopting generative artificial intelligence or risk becoming irrelevant, saying machine-made judicial decisions are inevitable.

The plaintiff in a class action on behalf of Sydney homeowners who allege their homes are sinking into the ground has flagged a potential fight over the funder’s cut and legal fees to be deducted from an $18 million settlement.

Richard White’s anti-money laundering software company Kyckr has denied unfair dismissal claims by its former chief technical officer, saying she never raised concerns about serious technical vulnerabilities and governance issues ahead of a proposed acquisition.

A class action against Allergan over recalled breast implants has lost its bid to strike out the US drug company’s defence that there was no known causal link between its implants and a certain form of cancer at the time of supply.

The ATO has lost its appeal of a ruling that put it on the hook for $35 million after a judge found it received millions misappropriated by a former Kupang Resources director in order to satisfy a tax debt against him.