Law Firms

Super fund Cbus has made admissions in the corporate regulator's case over long delays in the processing of $20 million in death and disability claims, with the action to progress directly to penalty.

A tribunal has recommended that lawyer and wealth guru Dominique Grubisa be struck from the roll of practitioners over conduct that included hiring a private investigator to look into another solicitor.

A Melbourne developer has sued its director, alleging that he unlawfully issued himself shares in an industrial estate development in Epping using a “simulated” signature, a claim which the director denies. 

Tabcorp has settled a lawsuit by a former CEO who alleged his coerced resignation over alleged offensive language was inconsistent with a boardroom history of condoning off-colour remarks.

A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC's case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.

Shine Lawyers has come under fire from a judge, after the firm filed an application to materially vary a 24.5 per cent group costs order in a settled shareholder class action against EML Payments.

The Commonwealth has been hit with a class action on behalf of thousands of Indigenous people living in remote areas who took part in the “discriminatory and unjust” Work for the Dole program.

A residential land lease community in NSW's Central Coast must repay residents for a fee hike after a tribunal ruled the contractual term providing for the increase involved “double dipping” to account for inflation.

Intrapac unit Brencorp has filed a suit against Casey Group, alleging the rival property developer devised an “underhand” deal to swindle it out of the acquisition of a golf club in southeast Melbourne.

Developer Robert Filippini is appealing a ruling that granted the liquidators for Keystone Asset Management's expanded freezing orders of up to $158 million in assets as well as two family trusts and four luxury cars.