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A barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner should have been found to have engaged in professional misconduct, the Council of the NSW Bar Association has told an appeals court.
Third-party liability insurers may become the latest parties to be dragged into a complex class action over alleged defects in Sydney's Opal Tower, which has has spawned six cross-claims so far.
A NSW barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner has been reprimanded for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
Opal Tower builder Icon and structural engineer WSP Structures have been joined as defendants in a class action brought by property owners, who have also added a slew of consumer law claims to the complex proceedings.
A former QC who is now a judge on the Victorian Supreme Court judge has been hit with costs following a ruling that he and a law firm acquired by Russell Kennedy provided negligent advice to a former client on a land purchase contract.
A judge has suggested hearing the long-running class action over the Opal Tower disaster as early as the first quarter of next year, as the court juggles three concurrent lawsuits and a slew of cross-claims over the doomed building.
A judge has approved a "disappointing" $25 million settlement in long-running class action litigation over the collapse of electronics retailer Dick Smith with claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
A judge will not let proceedings brought by ASIC against four former Linchpin Capital directors drag on, slamming a "vague" excuse from one of the directors, who awaits word from his insurers on whether his defence costs will be covered, that London is still in a state of "total confusion" due to COVID-19.
A judge has shot down an attempt by former Johnson Winter & Slattery clients to secure records of phone calls by their solicitor to corroborate claims the lawyer repeatedly advised them to ignore a settlement offer in a commercial case they later lost.
Fertility clinic IVF Australia is facing a lawsuit worth "many millions of dollars" launched by the parents of a child born with Pallister-Kilian syndrome, alleging it did not carry out a vital pre-implantation diagnostic test that would have identified the disease.