Colin Biggers & Paisley

Steel trader Macsteel International has won an injunction barring its former chief financial officer from disclosing or using its confidential information, after he downloaded almost 10,000 documents containing sensitive information. 

A judge has scolded the parties in a price-fixing case against Downer EDI's Spotless and Ventia for not conferring long enough to finalise critical documents ahead of trial, saying he should have ordered they stay in a room "without bread and water" until the task was complete.

McDonald’s franchisees named in an underpayments class action over alleged unpaid pre and post-shift work by managers need to decide by the end of the year whether they wish to be bound by agreed facts for the initial trial, a judge has said.

EY has claimed a provision of the tax law prevents it from handing over the client file of a property developer who alleges a former partner breached fiduciary duties, but the developer says there is no reason to withhold the documents.

EY has claimed a "draconian" provision of the Taxation Administration Act precludes it from handing over the client file of a property developer who has accused a former partner of breaching fiduciary duties.

The ACCC should consider whether a pleading might be “more efficient” in its case against a debt collection agency that also brings "serious allegations" against an associated legal practice, a judge has said.

Law firm Cornwalls is not on the hook for the Commonwealth Bank's costs in a negligence suit by a former client, a judge has found.

A lawyer for federal environment minister Murray Watt has complained about delays in a proceeding by the developers of a rejected proposal for two 40-storey towers in Parramatta, telling a court a revised proposal should not be "mixed up" with the case.

The number of new class actions this year is on track to be the lowest in 10 years as plaintiff firms wait to see which way the High Court will lean in a crucial shareholder case and funders redeploy capital to nascent class action jurisdictions.

Facing a lawsuit over cladding by the owners corporation of a $66 million Erskineville, Sydney apartment complex, builder Richard Crookes has brought its own claims against fire safety consultant Jenson Hughes.