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Court rips up law firm’s ‘positively misleading’ costs agreement
Legal Ethics 2024-07-15 11:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has set aside a costs agreement between a Perth-based law firm and its client in a family law matter that culminated in a $87,000 bill, saying the agreement was “positively misleading” with respect to the applicable hourly rates.

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Ochre liquidator can serve missing directors by email, judge says
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-01-26 1:46 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has given a liquidator the green light to use substituted service to serve court documents on two directors of failed iron ore producer Ochre Group whose exact whereabouts are unknown, amid concerns about transactions leading up to the company’s collapse.

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