A judge has rejected a new pleading that would have upped the damages to $135 million in a case by a shareholder of failed energy company Armour Group alleging law firm Baker McKenzie was knowingly involved in a plan to take control of the company for cheap.
A shareholder and creditor of failed energy company Armour Group will have to front $3.5 million in security in its case against law firm Baker McKenzie and others ahead of an upcoming trial.
Hall & Wilcox has recruited a partner to lead the firmâs newly-established Commonwealth Freedom of Information, information release and privacy practice.Â
The United States has won an appeal in a Darwin-based soldierâs personal injury suit, with the Northern Territory Court of Appeal finidng the US has foreign state immunity from the claims.
UK law firm DWF has recruited nine insurance partners from Hall & Wilcox to power its growth in Australia.
A judge has found that Telstra did not violate disability discrimination laws when it put a hard-of-hearing Triple-0 operator on leave after she failed a hearing test.
Macpherson Kelley has recruited a property expert from Hall & Wilcox, as well as the former head of commercial litigation at SLF Lawyers and a tax lawyer from PCL Lawyers, in an expansion of its national team.Â
Vanguard Investments has been ordered to pay a penalty of almost $13 million for misleading the public about its $1 billion âethically consciousâ hedge fund.
The Australian Pacific Investment Corporation has scored a win a dispute with Vasco Trustees over a managed investment scheme at the Yarra Valley Lodge hotel, with a judge finding that ‘evergreen’ licensing agreements are invalid.Â
Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has yet to engage lawyers to pursue his appeal of a judgeâs finding that he raped colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, but while he has the right to represent himself, experts have told Lawyerly it would be “very unwise” for him to run the case on his own.