A judge has refused to recuse herself from hearing disciplinary proceedings brought against a barrister over complaints that she used “judicially inappropriate words” at an interlocutory hearing.
A law firm running a class action alleging Toyota unit Hino cheated on emissions tests has teamed up with a top US firm running parallel proceedings against the car maker.
Commonwealth Bank units CommSec and Australian Investments Exchange have been ordered to pay more than $27 million for “serious and unacceptable” system failures that led to excessive fee charges for customers.
Facebook owner Meta wants to uncover the basis on which crypto tokens have been issued to bankroll a class action over its 2018 ban on cryptocurrency ads, citing the potentially conflicted interests of the self-represented lead applicant.
A prominent criminal lawyer has been charged with supplying millions of dollars in criminal proceeds as part of a $4.5 million money laundering scheme.
Melbourne restaurant College Dropout Burgers has been hit with a lawsuit by Kanye West for allegedly using the controversial rapper’s name and likeness without permission.
A judge has rejected a bid to add an insolvent trading claim to a $78 million class action over the collapse of Walton Construction, citing “extraordinary” delays in the three-year-old case.
A law firm, who along with Piper Alderman and one other firm, is being sued for negligence by a schoolteacher wrongly jailed for the indecent assault of two children has lost a bit to amend its defence at the commencement of the trial.
A judge has rejected Lachlan Murdoch’s claim that the media has been ‘sold a pup’ with a new public interest defence that Crikey’s publisher has deployed in the Fox News CEO’s defamation suit over an article about the January 6 attack on the US Capital.
AMP Capital Investors has won a property spat with insurance broker Willis Australia, which a judge found was not entitled to withdraw a notice to take a lease of office space at Angel Place on Pitt Street in Sydney’s CBD.