Barristers

In the first-ever civil penalty proceedings for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has been ordered to pay $5.8 million over a 2022 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.

Abbey Animal Health has appealed its loss in a suit seeking to invalidate rival Virbac's patent for an antiparasitic drug.

Property group Catalyst has won $31.7 million from a trustee corporation of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland over a suite of scuppered transactions for land and aged care homes.

Engineer Monadelphous has lost a fight that will affect its ability to run a limitations defence in a suit over alleged defects in a sewage plant upgrade on the Sunshine Coast.

Builder Shinetec has argued $48 million paid to the developer of a $185 million project in Sydney by Bank of China under a standby letter of credit was money it lent to the collapsed developer, with a judge seeming to agree the sum would otherwise be a windfall.

Twenty-three barristers in NSW have joined the silk ranks, including a leading defamation lawyer who was on the Fairfax legal team that defeated accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation suit.

Green iron startup Element Zero is challenging a bid by Fortescue for access to nine million seized documents in their trade secrets spat, saying its rival has not met the test for proving inadequate discovery of material.

The developers of an industrial-chic Melbourne apartment building have won a fight against the building's owners corporation over a lease that allowed Vodafone to store telecommunications equipment on the roof.

A judge has declined a creditor’s bid to wind up Victorian builder Roberts Construction Group, finding that the application relied on a “very modest” debt and involved a solicitor’s email “cast in threatening terms”. 

Sydney pub baron Jon Adgemis has been declared bankrupt and his properties have been sequestered, with the Federal Court finding the former KPMG partner owes $1.8 billion to creditors.