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Clyde & Co lures lawyer back from Gilchrist Connell
Business of Law 2025-10-31 11:28 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Clyde & Co has boosted its corporate insurance and commercial offering by luring a partner from Gilchrist Connell. 

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Herald Sun wants to shut down Groth privacy case before trial
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-10-30 11:07 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The publisher of the Herald Sun has filed a strike-out application against novel privacy claims by the wife of Victorian Liberals’ deputy leader Sam Groth, saying it was exempt as a news outlet.

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Fraudster Chris Marco cops record 14-year sentence for Ponzi scheme
White Collar 2025-10-30 11:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has slapped a 14-year jail term on Perth businessman Chris Marco, after a jury found him guilty of 43 charges connected to a $34 million fraud on investors.

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IVF rebate class action faces bid to cut egg donors from case
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:10 pm By Sam Matthews

The federal government has flagged its intention to bring a strike-out application to narrow the group member definition in a class action by single women and same-sex couples who were denied Medicare rebates for IVF.

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Calibre can’t get docs from owners in $356M Werribee shopping centre suit
Retail 2025-10-31 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Engineering firm Calibre can’t get minutes of meetings involving Probuild and the owners of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria to defend itself in $356 million defects suit.

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Subcontractor to intervene in case over DOCA for Roberts Co’s Victorian arm
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-10-31 11:33 pm By Sam Matthews

One of 50 subcontractors left unpaid after Victoria’s Department of Education nixed three construction project contracts with failed builder Roberts Co (VIC) is set to join in proceedings seeking declarations under a deed of company arrangement. 

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CBRE hits back at claims employee was falsely accused of killing rabbit
Real Estate 2025-10-31 11:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

CBRE has denied taking unlawful adverse action against an employee who alleges he was forced to continue working with a manager who falsely accused him of killing his rabbit and asked him which female co-workers he would have sex with. 

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Engineering firm targeted in bus crash class action flags cross-claims
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-10-31 11:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Engineering firm GHD Australia, which was recently joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has said it may bring cross-claims against its fellow defendants. 

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Chat about crane hire did not amount to ‘construction contract’, court finds
Construction 2025-10-31 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has set aside a SOPA determination after finding a verbal conversation between a developer and a crane supplier did not constitute a construction contract.

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Court to hear class action firm’s novel application to vary GCO rate
Class Actions 2025-10-29 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge will appoint a contradictor to weigh in on a class action’s novel bid to vary the rate of a group costs order, just two months after the court approved a lower rate than was sought by the firm that’s running the case.

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