A fight between three leading class action firms over who will lead a potentially lucrative shareholder class action against construction giant Boral is back on, after the High Court pressed go on class action beauty parades.
A judge has refused to grant a further “indulgence” to Melbourne-based construction company Maxcon in a settled dispute with a barristers chambers, finding justice was better served by putting an end to the case despite on ongoing costs dispute.
Engineering company UGL Limited is facing an employment class action on behalf of casual aluminium construction and manufacturing workers who were allegedly underpaid for over three years.
Construction company Clough Limited cannot claim over $15 million paid to employees for cancellation of their shares and options as a tax deduction, with a judge dismissing the Perth-based company’s appeal of a decision from the Commissioner of Taxation.
A former QC turned Victorian Supreme Court judge has been found liable, along with a law firm acquired by Russell Kennedy, to pay $1.185 million to a former client for providing negligent advice on a land purchase contract.
The ACCC’s cartel case against family-owned crane company NQCranes suffers from ‘incoherence’, the company’s counsel told the Federal Court on Monday ahead of an application to strike out a large portion of the regulator’s case.
A former director of a Leighton Holdings subsidiary has been hit with a third foreign bribery charge after a six-year AFP investigation found bribes were paid to Tanzanian public officials to secure a mooring replacement contract worth $US66.48 million.
Counsel for Queensland-based NQCranes has lashed out at the ACCC for seeking to amend its cartel action against the crane company, telling a court the regulator had been warned for months that the case was deficient.
A judge has refused a bid to file a new pleading in a $1.3 million “squabble” with an “unfortunate history” between a client and his former solicitors, one of whom is now dead, dating back to 1993.
A national law firm made $3 million in unauthorised payments from a client’s trust account and derailed a $24.3 million land development opportunity, according to a new lawsuit.