Baker McKenzie has been dragged into a court case brought by a shareholder and creditor of failed energy company Armour Group, which alleges the law firm was knowingly involved in a plan by China-based Shunkang Group to take control of the company for cheap.
Supporting KPMG’s bid to move a class action over the collapse of Arrium from Melboure to Sydney, former directors of the failed steel company have told the High Court the Victoria Supreme Court was impermissibly preferring the policy of its state in finding a contingency fee order made in the case could be factored into a transfer application.
Medibank CEO David Koczkar has taken the stand to help defeat a class action’s bid to uncover several reports, including three by Deloitte, commissioned in the wake of a massive data breach, which the health insurer argues are privileged.
A judge hearing a defamation case over a podcast by The Australian about the murder of Shandee Blackburn has granted a bid by a News Corp unit for a pre-trial hearing to determine whether acquitted suspect John Peros suffered serious harm from the podcast.
HWL Ebsworth has formally replaced its managing partner structure with a company board, following the death of managing partner Juan Martinez in March.
Federal police are investigating a large-scale data breach at an unnamed commercial health information organisation, the National Cyber Security Coordinator has revealed.
A judge has expressed concerns about the plaintiff’s proposed group costs order rate in a shareholder class action against fleet management company FleetPartners, saying the purpose of the GCO regime was to lower costs to group members.
A class action against ANZ and former subsidiary OnePath has been given the green light to “significantly expand” its case against the big four bank, over three years after the case was first filed.
A judge has given a poor prognosis to the eSafety Commissioner’s case seeking to have X Corp remove posts that depict a stabbing of a bishop at a Sydney church, calling it an alarming and unreasonable attempt to exert control over activities abroad.
Collapsed construction and maintenance company General Trade Industries has lost its bid to revive abandoned claims against AGL in a nearly four-year old contract case over work on two Queensland gas plants, with a judge finding the company has had “more than a sufficient opportunity to plead its case”.