Trial plans in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smithâs defamation case against Nine have hit another roadblock because of COVID-19 restrictions, less than two weeks before the hearing is set to resume, with the media giant now suggesting a move to Western Australia.
A Federal Circuit Court judge has hit back at accusations he conducted âthe grossest parody of a court hearingâ when he unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt of court, telling a trial âhe is a human being [who] made a mistakeâ.
US pop star Katy Perry has been accused of using her âfinancial mightâ to âsnuff outâ the small business of an Australian fashion designer, as trial kicked off in a long-running intellectual property dispute over the rights to use the Katy Perry trade mark in Australia.
Google has hit back at the ACCCâs case accusing it of misleading users about a change to its privacy policy, saying laws against misleading and deceptive conduct do not apply to those who did not read the notification about the change.
Former Slater & Gordon managing director Andrew Grech has told the Federal Court he regretted his “catastrophic error” in approving the $1.2 billion acquisition of Quindell’s professional services division, which resulted in massive losses for the plaintiffs law firm.
Defence minister Peter Dutton has won $35,000 in damages in a defamation case over a tweet accusing him of being a rape apologist, with a judge finding the tweet conveyed that the minister âexcuses rapeâ.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has told a court that he had issues working with Ernst & Young on an audit of law firm Slater & Gordon, calling the Big 4 firm “uncooperative”.
The lead applicant in a shareholder class action over Slater & Gordonâs disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition has said he might have âdumpedâ his stock before the firm experienced massive losses in 2016 if not for Pitcher Partners and Ernst & Youngâs allegedly faulty advice.
Accounting firms EY and Pitcher Partners ignored âfront page newsâ that Slater & Gordonâs acquired business Quindell was scrutinised by a UK regulator after reporting a $250 million (ÂŁ137 million) loss, a court heard on the second day of trial in a class action by the law firmâs shareholders.
The Sparke Helmore partner at the centre of a $1 million professional negligence lawsuit attempted to conceal an âoversight of enormous proportionsâ that is said to have lost a property developer two lucrative contracts, a court has heard.