An appeals court has found Transport for NSW was not empowered to compulsorily acquire land for the âpublic purposeâ of the Western Sydney Airport.Â
An appeals court has rejected oOh!media’s claim that it was denied procedural fairness in a dispute with Transport for NSW, saying judges are not required to give a “running commentary” on oral submissions and that counsel must be “constantly alert” when appearing in court.
Probuild Constructions has failed in its special leave application to the High Court, which sought to challenge a ruling that it held $7.7 million in trust for insurer Allianz under a deed of indemnity in connection with the development of West Side Place in Spencer St, Melbourne.
A court made valid orders for a Queensland solicitor to pay back $251,255 to the relative of a former client, an appeals court has found, saying that âexorbitant charging debases the reputation of the legal professionâ.
A disgruntled client who accused a Sydney-based law firm of running a “woefully prepared” case has lost his appeal of a judge’s rejection of his bid for a $225,000 personal costs order against the firm.
Pitcher Partners has lost its appeal of a decision that refused to stay a lawsuit over the accounting firmâs alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twiggâs misappropriation of $127 million from his family.Â
An appeals court has taken Pitcher Partners to task in its appeal seeking to throw out a lawsuit over the accounting firmâs alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twiggâs misappropriation of $127 million from his family.Â
A city council in the Hunter Valley region is set to appeal to the High Court a decision that found it was liable to pay a flight company over $3.6 million in damages for wasted expenditure after it repudiated a contract to lease land at the local airport.
The funder in the Opal Tower class action has appealed a judge’s decision to slash its commission for not disclosing proposed deductions from the settlement sum as percentages, telling the Full Court that group members could do “simple arithmetic”.
A NSW developer says law firm Sparke Helmore should face a heftier damages bill for its negligence in failing to alert it to an imminent deadline in two land sale contracts worth a combined $1.5 million that were part of a troubled $30 million development.