Barristers

A court has upheld a panel’s determination of the fees payable by media mogul Bruce Gordon’s company Birketu to his former lawyers, following an eight-year dispute.

Inpex says damages against AkzoNobel could increase "very significantly" if the court adopts its position on a referee's report and it succeeds on liability in its suit over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys gas project.

Fortescue wants to strike out a class action's claim that it created a hostile workplace for women, arguing the allegation was not raised in a human rights complaint and can't now be pursued in court.

A class action against Harvey Norman over alleged useless product warranties wants the court to manage the discovery process after more than six months of disagreements, saying the company's corporate structure is opaque.

A banned financial advisor who is suing former employer AMP Financial Planning for alleged unconscionable conduct is seeking to join AMP Bank to the case, claiming it made fraudulent misrepresentations.

A former director of defunct Falcon Capital has won a fight with ASIC over a proposed travel ban extension, following an emotional plea to a court in which he claimed to be a whistleblower. 

The ACCC should consider whether a pleading might be “more efficient” in its case against a debt collection agency that also brings "serious allegations" against an associated legal practice, a judge has said.

Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.

The High Court has agreed on an early November hearing date in a dispute over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties, despite a plea to the heavens by counsel for Esso and Woodside.

A trial in the state of Victoria's dispute with the owners of Pakenham Place Shopping Centre over a compulsory land acquisition has been vacated.