An arrangement to restructure Queensland labour hire services company Comlek has survived a challenge by the state’s revenue office, which wanted the business wound up, claiming the restructure was against public interest and commercial morality.
Sydney barrister Gina Edwards has been awarded part of her costs in an indemnity basis after securing $150,000 in damages in her defamation case over Channel Nine’s coverage of her battle for custody of famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.
Counsel for Worley in a nine-year-old shareholder class action that is set for another Full Court appeal has foreshadowed a possible recusal application against the judges who heard the first appeal.
A court has found iSignthis and its former CEO Nickolas John Karantzis breached the Corporations Act in disclosures to the stock market about one-off revenue and the termination of the fintech’s business arrangement with Visa.
The lead applicant in a class action over the alleged unlawful detention of 240 Indonesian children and the Commonwealth are locked in a battle over the construction of a $27.5 million settlement reached last year.
A judge has dismissed a recusal application in an employment case against Laing O’Rourke Australia, which alleged an email from his associate inferred misconduct by a barrister and a Mills Oakley solicitor representing the construction company.
BHP wants to appeal a decision giving a class action the OK to fix what a judge accepted was an “inadvertent mistake” that resulted in a ruling — itself the subject of an appeal — which limited the group member definition.
An appeals court has found that the ACT legal complaints body was entitled to bring a second complaint against a lawyer after a first complaint about the same conduct was summarily dismissed, rejecting an argument that retreading the same ground would be oppressive.
Brisbane restaurant Establishment 203 has hit back at a trade mark suit brought by Sydney hospitality mogul Justin Hemmes, telling a court that his ‘Establishment’ trade mark should be canceled.
A Wollongong wills and estates solicitor has been struck from the roll, with the NSW Supreme Court finding it was warranted given the seriousness and extent of the offending, as well as the solicitor’s initial reticence to cooperate with the investigation.