Herbert Smith Freehills has helped EnergyAustralia secure financing for its Wooreen Energy Storage System project, paving the way for construction on the Latrobe Valley BESS.
Defamation boutique Giles George has a “good arguable case” that it has a solicitor’s lien over costs payable by Nine in a defamation case by barrister Gina Edwards over social media cavoodle Oscar.
The NSW government has lost its bid to strike out paragraphs related to a claim for exemplary damages in a class action alleging police conducted strip searches at music festivals as a matter of routine.
Australian cancer care company GenesisCare has been sued by Novartis unit Endocyte for allegedly infringing the patents for its prostate cancer treatment Pluvicto. The lawsuit, filed in the Federal Court in January, accuses GenesisCare of infringing or threatening to infringe patents held by Endocyte and Purdue Research Foundation by supplying lutetium, the generic version of…
After losing a travel ban application against a Melbourne businessman as part of a probe into a failed investment fund, ASIC is now seeking freezing orders over his assets.
Origin Energy has been hit with a class action alleging it breached its continuous disclosure obligations and misled the market in its earnings guidance for the 2022 and 2023 financial years.
A law firm that lodged a class action against Apple over “throttled” iPhones might discontinue the case without having served the US tech giant.
A judge has approved a $20 million settlement in a class action against NAB, despite initial concerns about the “moral hazard” of paying fees incurred by the applicant’s former lawyers to prepare “sub-optimal pleadings”.
A judge has refused a bid by independent NSW MP Alex Greenwich for an injunction restraining former One Nation politician Mark Latham from repeating homophobic comments that were found to be defamatory.
Collapsed Melbourne developer Steller has failed to convince a court that its founders and two former directors owe $101.9 million, with a judge rejecting claims that they personally guaranteed the company’s debt.