Defamation boutique Giles George has a “good arguable case” that it has a solicitor’s lien over costs payable by Nine in a defamation case by barrister Gina Edwards over social media cavoodle Oscar.
The NSW government has lost its bid to strike out paragraphs related to a claim for exemplary damages in a class action alleging police conducted strip searches at music festivals as a matter of routine.
A judge has approved a $20 million settlement in a class action against NAB, despite initial concerns about the “moral hazard” of paying fees incurred by the applicant’s former lawyers to prepare “sub-optimal pleadings”.
Collapsed Melbourne developer Steller has failed to convince a court that its founders and two former directors owe $101.9 million, with a judge rejecting claims that they personally guaranteed the company’s debt.
An appeals court has found water infrastructure investor Conexa liable to pay land duty on a $46 million Sydney pipeline it acquired as part of a blockbuster deal with Rosehill.
A court has refused to order the applicant in a failed class action against NULIS Nominees to pay indemnity costs, but has confirmed that so-called Calderbank offers can operate in group proceedings.
In tossing the sixth securities class action to go to trial in recent years, a Federal Court judge has shown the task of proving shareholder loss is a doozy.
Although finding the former director of Quintis and its auditor, EY, engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct, a judge has dimissed a class action by the sandalwood producer’s shareholders.
A newly appointed judge has disqualified himself from hearing a group of cases over Greensill’s $1.7 billion collapse, after he acted as counsel for insurer Marsh in a related dispute.
A solicitor who had an affair with a law firm employee and then fired her did not engage in misconduct, a tribunal has found.