A judge has granted a bid for a new mediator in a class action over allegedly combustible cladding, agreeing with the applicant that a “fresh start” may be beneficial.
AMP has been taken to court by a former licenced financial advisor who alleges he was terminated without proper and sufficient cause and forced to sell his business for $6.1 million under the wealth manager’s buyer of last resort program.
Grocon has taken another hit in its $270 million lawsuit against Infrastructure NSW over a stalled $2 billion Central Barangaroo development project, with a judge rejecting its claim of privilege over more than 15,000 documents.
The receivers of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick’s estate have reached an agreement with her husband on a small pool of remaining assets in dispute that will see half of her teenaged son’s sneaker collection sold to repay defrauded investors.
Optus has lost its fight to keep a class action from accessing an independent report by consulting giant Deloitte into last year’s major data breach.
Though the origins of this growing breeziness with the court are unknown, the increasing informality of correspondence with her chambers has so irked a judge she has taken to task the lawyers responsible for one galling example.
New High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler was lauded by a group of legal luminaries at a swearing in ceremony, where he was described as the “unbackable favourite” for the country’s highest legal post and “the judge’s judge”.
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued to invalidate two patents held by a German competitor for a pre-filled syringe to treat age-related eye diseases, as generic drug makers race for a piece of the lucrative eye drug market.
The Indian government has lodged an appeal after a judge found it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites.
The ACCC has raised concerns over Qantas’ alleged failure to respond to claims in a blockbuster case against the airline over the sale of tickets on cancelled flights.