Law Firms

A class action against Insurance Australia wants to add car insurance customers to the case, and says extra defence costs by IAL -- which has already spent a "disproportionate" $3 million -- shouldn't bar the new claims.

Victorian aged care provider Arcare has been hit with a class action alleging it charged residents millions of dollars for services they did not use.

A judge has hit ASX Limited with a $20.5 million penalty after it admitted that a February 2022 statement to the market that its CHESS replacement project was “progressing well” was misleading. 

Victoria’s State Revenue Office has gone to the High Court in its battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

A judge who is overseeing a class action over the government's Work for Dole program has warned against overworking lawyers after the applicant pushed for more efficient discovery.

Sibayne Stillwater's Copper Mines of Tasmania has accused construction company Ian Harrington Group of inducing a subsidiary to breach a contract for rehabilitating a closed mine near Queenstown.

Four contractors are facing cross-claims in a class action against developer Mulpha over a 683-lot development in Glenmore Park.

A former producer of Seven's Spotlight, who gave evidence in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case, is seeking to remove Thomsons as the solicitor for News Corp in his defamation and racial discrimination suit against the publisher. 

Hall & Wilcox has welcomed three partners from Piper Alderman to grow its corporate practice.

A class action on behalf of public housing residents in the Northern Territory has lost its appeal of a judge's decision to split an upcoming trial.