Judges

A High Court majority has found self-represented law firms can recover costs for their solicitors’ work, but in dissent two judges said the ruling effectively restored an exception scrapped five years ago.

Claims of hurt and distress by former ABC presenter Antoinette Lattouf stemming from her dismissal are misdirected, the broadcaster has argued at trial.

A judge has rejected an “ambitious and novel” freezing order sought by a creditor and former associate of bankrupt Graaf Group founder Gennaro Autore over a $22 million boutique hotel in Potts Point.

A judge hearing a discovery spat in a suit by Rio Tinto unit Energy Resources has slashed two affidavits from the company's lawyers, calling them "little more than dogmatic statements".

Mitsubishi says an investigation into the fuel consumption of its Triton cars is protected by litigation privilege and should not be handed over to a class action.

The Northern Territory government is fighting a false imprisonment and wrongful death class action by the family of an Indigenous woman who died at a COVID-19 quarantine facility.

Lawyers for tech start-up Dovetail want the Federal Court to suppress the details of a "scandalous" lawsuit brought against the company and its CEO by an in-house lawyer.

The firm running a class action against the AFL on behalf of players who allegedly suffered on-field brain injuries has found lead plaintiffs to bring a separate class action against 17 clubs.

Ex-ABC chair Ita Buttrose sent an email suggesting Antoinette Lattouf be pulled off air following an email campaign by pro-Israel lawyers, a court has heard.

Super Retail Group's former top lawyer is fighting the dismissal of her application for performance of a settlement she says was reached following her dismissal from the company.