Law Firms

Builder Hansen Yuncken is seeking preliminary discovery from the Victorian government as it mulls proceedings alleging the state interfered with the independence of a superintendent in relation to a $156 million contract to expand the Barwon prison near Geelong.

The owners of Perth high-rise HBF House have won their bid for discovery of documents from two CIMIC entities identifying defects with the façade, in a suit alleging the building squeaks when the weather changes and leaks when it rains.

China's state-run CITIC has lost an appeal bid to the High Court in its long-running battle with Clive Palmer over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia.

The High Court has declined a special leave application from Victoria’s State Revenue Office over a battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

A Victoria Supreme Court judge has ordered the transfer of two cases over pre-emptive rights in a land development unit trust to the Federal Court, to be heard alongside a case by property developer Villawood.

Hall & Wilcox has hired an experienced employment lawyer from Holding Redlich to boost its government offering in Canberra.

A judge has questioned how a law firm arrived at a proposed GCO rate of 35 per cent in a shareholder class action against Light & Wonder and wants more data to support the application, which the game maker said was based on "impressionistic" evidence.

Investor White Oak on Tuesday fought back against a push by IAG and Tokio Marine for over $15 million in security on the eve of trial in its case over the collapse of Greensill Capital, saying the insurers' Rolls Royce approach was unreasonable now that the bulk of the $7 billion litigation had settled.

CoreLogic can't delay paying indemnity costs for withdrawing an admission made at the beginning of an IP trial, with a judge saying its argument only ever worked in ‘Intolerable Cruelty’ and "only because delivered by George Clooney”.

Intellectual property lawyer Chris Williams has joined Johnson Winter Slattery from Gilbert + Tobin, with the new partner described as a 'go-to' lawyer for complex IP disputes.