A tribunal has found a Sydney solicitor guilty of professional misconduct after finding he sent numerous emails that contained profane language and were condescending to a Mills Oakley solicitor during a dispute involving his mother-in-law.
Lawyers for accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann have conceded his evidence on several issues was âlacking credibilityâ, but say the court should not find him a âcompulsive liarâ as argued by Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson in defending his defamation case.Â
The lead applicant in a class action against Carnival PLC over a COVID-19 outbreak aboard its Ruby Princess cruise ship has lodged an appeal after she won her negligence case but walked away with only out-of-pocket expenses totaling $4,000.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lost its bid to pursue a disciplinary case against former Grant Thornton director Bradley Taylor over his 2018 audit of fintech firm iSignThis while criminal proceedings are ongoing.
A judge has cut law firm Levitt Robinsonâs costs in a class action against retirement village provider Aveo, finding the solicitors were âseriously derelictâ in serving their evidence on loss and ran up over $1 million in avoidable costs.
The NSW Court of Appeal has issued a judgment contradicting a finding from its Victorian counterpart, ruling that law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell can recover costs for work done by its own solicitors in a lawsuit against a former client in which the firm represented itself.
Apple is facing a new class action on behalf of iPhone 6 and 7 users whose phones were ‘throttled’, or slowed down, due to updates the Silicon Valley company made to its iOS operating system, which were aimed at conserving battery life.
A Sydney concert promoter has lost his appeal against former Nine unit TEG Live, with an appeals court agreeing that his idea to promote a 2013 Australian tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction was not âuniqueâ enough to be confidential information.Â
On the final day of trial in Bruce Lehmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson, barrister for the former Liberal staffer told the court his colleague Brittany Higgins falsely accused him of rape to avoid being sacked.
A judge hearing the final day of Bruce Lehrmannâs defamation trial against Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson has expressed his doubt at the plausibility of the former Liberal stafferâs evidence that he was working on Question Time briefs at the time he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins.