Law Firms

A surveyor who approved the use of combustible cladding on developments in Prahran, Brunswick East and Glen Iris has successfully challenged a disciplinary action that resulted in a suspension and $20,500 fine, with a tribunal finding he did his due diligence. 

Clayton Utz has lured an environmental and planning law specialist from Norton Rose Fulbright to join the firm's Brisbane office.

A class action over the fuel efficiency of thousands of Mitsubishi Triton vehicles can add a new claim over alleged misleading testing, despite the car maker's argument that it has no reasonable chance of succeeding. 

A judge has declared super fund trustee Netwealth breached the Corporations Act in offering the First Guardian fund on its investment platform, which left more than 1,000 members exposed to $100 million in losses.

Property listings giant Domain plans to attack the validity of a Deloitte report which was used to support competitor REA Group’s claim that it attracts the buyer for 9 in 10 homes sold, a court has heard.

An appeals court has rejected a Sydney solicitor’s challenge to a finding that he engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct after he inaccurately recounted a judge’s comments in a letter to a costs assessor.

King & Spalding has hired a life sciences partner from Thomsons to join its government practice in Sydney.

A Dentons client that paid $45 million for an 82-hectare Denham Court property that was only worth $10.8 million, in what a judge called a "brazen fraud", has sued the law firm for professional negligence.

EY has claimed a provision of the tax law prevents it from handing over the client file of a property developer who alleges a former partner breached fiduciary duties, but the developer says there is no reason to withhold the documents.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.