An appeals court has quashed the conviction of the former CEO of Bruck Textile Technologies, finding it was not open to the court to convict him despite his guilty plea.
James Merlino, the former deputy for ex-Victorian premier Dan Andrews and current Rest Super chair, has been appointed chair at plaintiff law firm Slater & Gordon.
Crown Resorts has lost a fight against a proposal by funders for iProsperity Group’s liquidators to put up an after-the-event insurance policy as security for costs in a case that seeks to recover $55 million in gambling losses.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered the reinstatement of an academic who was found to have been unfairly sacked by SAE Institute after touching a female student’s hair.
A barrister who is suing solicitor Rebekah Giles over fees for work on a defamation case against Nine has been partially successful in her bid to strike out sections of Giles’ defence.
An appeals court has found a note left on the iPhone of a late businessman with an estate worth over $13 million counts as his last will and testament.
The lead applicant in a class action challenging Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray during a protest over the International Mining and Resources Conference in 2019 has been awarded $54,000 in damages.
The NSW Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal launched by a Canberra warehouse owner, which sought over $5.3 million from the previous owner for the cost of replacing a concrete slab.
A property and construction law expert who has worked on some of Sydney’s biggest projects has joined Thomson Geer’s partnership after a decade at Addisons.
A leading public law barrister who represented an activist in his successful challenge to NSW’s anti-protest laws has been appointed as a judge on the Federal Court.