Law Firms

A tribunal has recommended that lawyer and wealth guru Dominique Grubisa be struck from the roll of practitioners over conduct that included hiring a private investigator to look into another solicitor.

The Australian Financial Review has hit back at a defamation suit by the owner of Melbourne jazz venue Bird’s Basement over articles about a former employee’s now-discontinued suit, saying the articles were a fair report of public documents.

Shine Lawyers has come under fire from a judge, after the firm filed an application to materially vary a 24.5 per cent group costs order in a settled shareholder class action against EML Payments.

Air conditioning wholesaler Polyaire has been ordered to pay $15.2 million in damages in relation to a 2018 fire at a Seven Hills, NSW, factory complex it leased caused by its placement of wooden pallets in a open yard.

A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers. 

The Commonwealth has been hit with a class action on behalf of thousands of Indigenous people living in remote areas who took part in the “discriminatory and unjust” Work for the Dole program.

A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC's case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.

A Melbourne developer has sued its director, alleging that he unlawfully issued himself shares in an industrial estate development in Epping using a “simulated” signature, a claim which the director denies. 

Swiss greentech company Kanadevia Inova has been hit with another suit by the receivers over a contract for the $500 million East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia.

Developer Robert Filippini is appealing a ruling that granted the liquidators for Keystone Asset Management's expanded freezing orders of up to $158 million in assets as well as two family trusts and four luxury cars.