Law Firms

Mills Oakley has bolstered its insurance offering, nabbing a 15-person team from Moray & Agnew, including three partners.

Gold Coast Council has brought a High Court case over a decision that found the city must consider the provision of affordable housing in assessing an application by developer Cielo Group for a luxury beachfront highrise.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

A former director of property developer Villawood has argued a judge should disqualify himself from hearing a contempt case after finding he gave false instructions to his Mills Oakley solicitor.

The former CEO of engineering services firm DRA Global has failed in a dispute over law firm emails he claimed were produced in futherance of an unlawful scheme to take control of the company's board.

A massive dip in the price of iron ore in 2014 did not ring alarm bells for failed Arrium's then CEO, a court has heard, with the former boss denying that a capital raising that year was an urgent measure in the face of the potentially 'catastrophic' drop.

A shareholder class action against Nuix and underwriter Macquarie over the software company's float on the ASX has trimmed its case against the company's former chairman the third week into trial. 

The plaintiff in a class action on behalf of Sydney homeowners who allege their homes are sinking into the ground has flagged a potential fight over the funder’s cut and legal fees to be deducted from an $18 million settlement.

Richard White’s anti-money laundering software company Kyckr has denied unfair dismissal claims by its former chief technical officer, saying she never raised concerns about serious technical vulnerabilities and governance issues ahead of a proposed acquisition.

The funder that bankrolled a settled shareholder class action against directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco and KPMG may face a haircut to its proposed 35 per cent commission after a contradictor was appointed to scrutinise the reasonableness of the rate.