Barristers

IAG and Tokio Marine kept their concerns about the validity of Greensill Capital's 2019 trade credit insurance policy confidential, even as they must have known the supply chain financier was using the policy to attract investors, a trial court has heard.

A judge overseeing the trial in a case against a group of insurers over the collapse of Greensill Capital has ruled that a report by a Japanese law firm is privileged despite the absence of legal professional privilege in Japan.

Light & Wonder has hit back at a securities class action over disclosures about the theft of Aristocrat's trade secrets, denying that its 2025 $1.4 billion forecast depended on its Dragon Train poker game which misappropriated its rival's IP.

Insurer Nautilus has secured an extension to serve a writ on a slew of reinsurers as it awaits a High Court decision on whether to revive a class action against former NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees over $165 million in conflicted remuneration.

The company behind the redevelopment of Melbourne’s former Hotel Lindrum has told a judge that the terms of a hotel management agreement were sufficient to establish use of the 'Lindrum' trade mark. 

Builder Hansen Yuncken is seeking preliminary discovery from the Victorian government as it mulls proceedings alleging the state interfered with the independence of a superintendent in relation to a $156 million contract to expand the Barwon prison near Geelong.

The owners of Perth high-rise HBF House have won their bid for discovery of documents from two CIMIC entities identifying defects with the façade, in a suit alleging the building squeaks when the weather changes and leaks when it rains.

China's state-run CITIC has lost an appeal bid to the High Court in its long-running battle with Clive Palmer over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia.

The High Court has declined a special leave application from Victoria’s State Revenue Office over a battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

A Victoria Supreme Court judge has ordered the transfer of two cases over pre-emptive rights in a land development unit trust to the Federal Court, to be heard alongside a case by property developer Villawood.