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Former Slater & Gordon managing director Andrew Grech has told the Federal Court he regretted his "catastrophic error" in approving the $1.2 billion acquisition of Quindell's professional services division, which resulted in massive losses for the plaintiffs law firm.
Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has won its appeal of a $160,000 judgment in favour of former partner Thomas Martin, with the Full Federal Court finding Martin’s allegations of deceit arose from “an excess of suspicion” and “causal connections of the most tenuous kind”.
Law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler will part with $28 million in its settlement with Slater & Gordon shareholders over advice ahead of the plaintiffs firm's disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition.
Beach Energy has been hit with a second shareholder class action in as many days over allegedly misleading earnings projections for its Western Flank oil and gas reserves in the Cooper Basin.
A judge has dressed down ASIC over the handling of its action against GetSwift, criticising the regulator's failure to seek a court injunction to prevent the company's relocation to Canada.
Financial services company AMP has lost its bid to de-class representative proceedings brought on behalf of 1.5 million insurance customers.
A bid by Google for a confidentiality undertaking by former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro over evidence produced in the politician's defamation case has earned a sharp rebuke by a judge.
The judge who made findings against the son of the mastermind behind the Banksia class action scam may have formed strong views about the 27-year-old's role before he testified and used the flawed suggestion that he was his father's right-hand man as an "evidential gap filler", an appeals court has been told.
A judge has questioned property developer PPK Group's challenge to the dismissal of its long-running negligence case against HWL Ebsworth over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned land in Sydney.
South Australian oil and gas firm Beach Energy has been hit with a class action over allegedly misleading earnings projections for its Western Flank oil and gas reserves in the Cooper Basin.