A former HWL Ebsworth partner claims the firm and managing partner Juan Martinez have failed to pay her money she is owed because she did not support the law firm’s aborted plan to go public.
Multinational pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s has launched a lawsuit against a Melbourne biotechnology company’s directors as well as venture capital firm OneVentures, alleging they sold it dodgy lice treatment which was forecasted to make over US$100 million.
The jury trial in a criminal cartel case against mobility equipment provider Country Care and two employees could be delayed due to coronavirus restrictions, as a majority of the parties, located in NSW, wait for restrictions to ease in order to travel to Victoria, a court has heard.
While there was no shortage of pain and challenges for law firms as the coronavirus raged across the globe last year, a number of big firms also felt the sting of litigation from disgruntled clients, partners and employees.
US-based consumer goods giant SC Johnson & Son has foreshadowed a bid to strike out a case filed by Reckitt Benckiser over its Raid Max insecticide ads after a Federal Court judge found Reckitt had a “weak” prima facie case.
A judge has dismissed an attempt by a Reckitt Benckiser unit to block Raid insect spray ads by rival SC Johnson , saying the consumer goods giant had a “weak” prima facie case based on “excessively literal and strained” interpretations of the ads.
HWL Ebsworth has successfully defended a negligence lawsuit over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned Sydney land to property developer PPK Group, with a court finding that the developer was actually “better off” because of the transaction.
The former CEO of Melbourne business consultant Hendry Group has launched legal action against fund manager Salter Brothers and a number of top executives alleging they engaged in unlawful sexual discrimination and harassment while also failing to investigate these allegations and pay her entitlements after suspending her.
A judge has lashed out at the legal team behind a class action against S&P over allegedly misleading credit ratings for filing hearsay evidence in support of an application to serve the ratings giant overseas, saying that “nobody who is a first year law student” would say the evidence was admissible.
Murray Goulburn’s former managing director Gary Helou and chief financial officer Brad Hingle have been disqualified from heading up companies after they were found to have breached the Corporations Act for their role in the milk supplier’s repeated failure to disclose an expected material decrease in the milk supplier’s earnings guidance for 2016.