Law Firms

Relative newcomer Hamilton Locke has lured two lawyers from Corrs Chambers Westgarth and one from Gilbert + Tobin to grow its corporate team.

The High Court has been asked to overturn a Full Court decision finding lawyers can take a cut from a class action settlement under a solicitors’ common fund order and to finally settle the question of whether the court has the power to issue common fund orders at all.

A judge has signed off on an agreed-to $5 million penalty against Noumi in ASIC proceedings for violating its continuous disclosure obligations and found the food company’s non-disclosures caused it shares to trade at an inflated price.

The High Court is scheduled to hand down a judgment in a class action on Wednesday on the power of a product disclaimer to protect manufacturers from claims they owe a duty of care to protect purchasers from pure economic loss.

G&S Engineering and its parent company, DRA Global, can redact what a court has found is privileged information provided in a witness statement by a former top executive, in the latest interlocutory stoush ahead of trial in a high stakes dispute with MACH Energy.

A judge has rejected Lendlease’s argument that Queensland building legislation does not apply to cross-border works carried out at Gold Coast Airport, saying the builder’s construction of the law would require a “bolt-by-bolt” analysis of construction work.

Two judges have declined to award carriage of a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products to a firm accused of plagiarising its rivals’ pleading.

Super Retail Group’s former chief legal officer Rebecca Farrell says the company damaged her professional standing as a senior solicitor and exposed her to the risk of regulatory investigation and enforcement action.

Monash IVF and a host of IVF clinics have taken Insurance Australia Ltd to court over coverage ahead of mediation in a class action alleging the companies destroyed potentially viable embryos. 

A judge has ordered Mercer Superannuation to pay $11.3 million for “reckless, if not deliberate” representations about so-called sustainable investment options that included investment in oil and gas companies, including BHP and Origin Energy.