A Sydney law firm and its principal have been ordered to pay over $1.2 million to a former client after the solicitor was found to have failed to give proper advice about a hotel purchase.
Former directors of Steller Developments have told a court they did not intend to guarantee the company’s debt in the event of bankruptcy, as trial kicked off in proceedings by the collapsed Melbourne developer’s liquidators.
Power company Callide has been hit with a $9 million penalty for “very serious” contraventions of the National Electricity Rules that led to an explosion at a coal-fired power station.
A High Court majority has found self-represented law firms can recover costs for their solicitors’ work, but in dissent two judges said the ruling effectively restored an exception scrapped five years ago.
The former CFO of Star Entertainment has reached a settlement in ASIC’s case accusing ten executives of breaching their duties in relation to the casino operator’s lax money laundering compliance.
ABC managing director David Anderson has admitted in cross-examination that there was a “missing step” in former presenter’s Antoinette Lattouf’s dismissal.
AAI has lost its bid to appeal an order joining it to a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed at two high-rise towers in Liverpool, NSW.
A tribunal has refused to order a contractor to remove external sunscreens on Meriton’s 70-storey Infinity Tower in the Brisbane CBD, despite finding they were made of combustible aluminum composite panels.
CityLink operator CML has been overcharging Eastlink operator ConnectEast for ‘roaming fees’ in an arrangement that allows customers to use one account over both toll roads, a court has found.
Tech start-up Dovetail has withdrawn its bid to suppress details of a “scandalous” lawsuit brought against the company and its CEO by an in-house lawyer.