Events

Law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell can't appeal a stay of a costs order in its dispute with media mogul Bruce Gordon, with an appeals court saying disputes fuelled by their “mutual animus” should not be encouraged. 

An appeals court has found a note left on the iPhone of a late businessman with an estate worth over $13 million counts as his last will and testament.

An investment company which retained Hall & Wilcox to advise on the sale of a Mornington Peninsula shopping centre has sued the law firm for millions, alleging due diligence failures in relation to asbestos at the property. 

A Sydney developer has successfully challenged a decision which rejected its plans to demolish a 32-room boarding house for the construction of four luxury residences in Paddington, with a judge calling the decision "personal and idiosyncratic".

Fresh off a record settlement for the Robodebt scandal, the government is facing a new class action over a law that retroactively allowed it to impose card payment surcharges, which the suit says amounts to unjust enrichment.

In its writ to the High Court on Friday, Reddit says Australia's social media ban for children under 16 years old “directly burdens” the country's implied freedom of political communication.

The Federal Court has dismissed Walter Sofronoff KC’s legal challenge to the ACT Integrity Commission findings that he engaged in corrupt conduct in his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.

AMP has agreed to pay $29 million to settle a class action alleging insurance customers were overcharged, putting to rest another case stemming from "serious misconduct" that came to light curing the 2018 banking royal commission.

A developer has failed to revive its $400 million lawsuit against an investor over a development at the site of the former Pentridge Prison in Victoria, with an appeals court agreeing the case was properly dismissed. 

The High Court has unanimously granted home retailer Bed Bath N’ Table’s appeal of a ruling that retailer House did not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct in setting up its Bed & Bath stores.