Barristers

The Commonwealth Bank wants Cornwalls to pay its costs in a negligence case by a former client, saying the law firm should foot the bill for claiming proportionate liability against the bank.

A former financial advisor and his company have won court approval to run a claim challenging AMP's buyer of last resort policy, despite the company being a group member in a related class action that settled for $100 million in 2023. 

After a successful appeal of a decision found to be "personal and idiosyncratic", a Sydney developer can move ahead with plans to demolish a boarding house to make way for four luxury residences in Paddington.

A court has found a Pelligra Group unit validly terminated leases for offices in a Melbourne CBD building rented by Birdies Mini Golf owner Stephanie Doyle after she failed to meet a deadline for agreement on floorplans.

A Whitehaven Coal unit has succeeded in overturned four convictions for a 2020 blast at its Maules Creek mine that was found to breach environmental laws.

A class action is challenging the Federal Court's post-trial ruling for Alucobond panel maker 3A Composites and supplier Halifax Vogel.

Swiss drug maker Novartis has lost its bid to have Pharmacor's Valtresto trade mark removed for non use, with an IP Australia delegate finding that an injunction in a fight over the patent for Novartis' heart drug Entresto was an obstacle to using the mark. 

A judge has refused an egg producer's bid for a non-party costs order against Melbourne firm Gordon Legal, saying he was not satisfied the filing of a defective notice was sufficient to invoke the court’s wasted costs jurisdiction.

DC Comics is taking another swing at a Sydney man's bid to register 'kryptonite diet' as a trade mark, arguing he acted "willfully blind" or in bad faith in registering the mark given its sizable reputation in the fictional substance from the Superman franchise.

A judge has accepted that Cbus’ agreement to buy a 50 per cent stake in Sydney’s troubled Halo Tower could fall through if the beleaguered developer behind the project is forced to remain in administration, shooting down a challenge to a DOCA.