Law Firms

MinterEllison has expanded its private capital team, hiring two leveraged finance specialists from Gilbert + Tobin.

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge, which it argues was imposed to cover amounts owed to Chevron for construction costs. 

The Victorian planning minister has told the High Court that IGA can't bring a lawsuit over a local council amendment allowing up to four supermarkets in the town of Shepparton, saying the case does raise a jurisdictional error. 

A judge has refused an activist group’s bid for an injunction against the Hills Shire Council over its plans to build a rugby sports field on Fred Caterson Reserve.

Coles has told a court that its decision to change its discount policies was unsurprising during a period of significant inflation, denying claims by the ACCC that its ‘Down Down’ promotions were misleading.

A judge has ordered the firm behind a class action over Victoria's COVID-19 hotel quarantine program to pay another $3.6 million in security for costs, a far cry from the $24 million sought by the state to cover its outlay.

AMP super members are set to receive $60 million in a class action stemming from the banking royal commission, with the average payout being under $100, a judge has heard. 

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have filed a class action to force the removal of dumped asbestos waste, some 60 years after the Wittenoom asbestos mines closed and the town was struck from the map.

Highrise fitout company Starline Interiors has persuaded a court to return a $1.5 million payment dispute to an adjudicator, whose earlier decision against the head contractor on a luxury Gold Coast tower was declared void.

The University of Sydney is seeking to push back the trial date in its six-year-old case against Multiplex over alleged defects at the Charles Perkins Centre, alleging it has recently discovered new problems with the building.