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The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm's partnership.
The Chief Justice of South Australia has corrected JK Rowling’s “completely unfounded” fears about a new practice note relating to the use of preferred gender pronouns in the state’s courts, after the Harry Potter author took to Twitter to criticise it.
Marcus Bastiaan has sued solicitors who acted in his settled defamation case against Nine over branch stacking allegations, claiming the legal bill was “grossly disproportionate” and almost double his settlement.
Dentons has snagged a former principal at intellectual property firm Spruson & Ferguson to join its patents team in Sydney.
A judge’s appeal of a decision that found he unlawfully imprisoned a man for contempt and was liable for over $300,000 in damages may go straight to the High Court and should be heard before a similar suit by another man jailed by the judge, a court has heard.
Barristers in Victoria have voted against changes to the Bar's constitution to include the promotion of diversity and prevention of discrimination as part of the organisation's goals.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on the extent of advocate’s immunity in a dispute between a Sydney solicitor and his former clients, after an appeals court found he couldn’t be sued for negligence for failure to include a breach of contract claim in a building dispute.
Thomson Geer has snagged a Clayton Utz special counsel to bolster its tax practice.
An appeals court has found that barrister’s fees are not excluded as a recoverable outlay under worker’s compensation regulations.
With customary wit the top judge of NSW has sent off Justice Robert Beech-Jones to take his seat on the High Court, observing the value of his colleague's criminal law experience and the lamentable drop in that bench's "sartorial standards" with his elevation.