An appeals court has overturned a $16 million judgment against a law firm, finding it did not breach its duties when acting for a lender that provided financing to a client.
An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked ‘getting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work.
The sacked boss of Orix Australia — who escaped charges of corruption three years ago — has settled a dispute with his former employer, including a claim by the fleet management company for $18 million in damages.
Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.
The High Court’s abolition of the so-called Chorley exception does not apply to a party’s in-house counsel, which is still permitted to seek its own legal costs for prosecuting or defending a proceeding, a judge has found.
German cladding manufacturer 3A Composites has again threatened to call for the de-classing of a class action brought over allegedly combustible cladding, slamming the case against it as “simply shambolic” and the conduct of the applicant as “utterly irresponsible”.
German-based 3A Composites has issued an ultimatum in the high-stakes combustible cladding class action against it, saying it will try to shut down the matter as a representative proceeding if group member registration and opt out are not initiated.
3A Composites has slammed the pleadings in a class action against it over allegedly combustible cladding, questioning whether the stated common issues are actually common to all group members.