Law Firms

The Australian Taxation Office is appealing a win for gold producer Evolution Mining after an initial trial over the company's purported decision to cancel the transfer of $31 million in post-acquisiton losses.

A court has tossed a lawsuit by the Wilderness Society alleging NOPSEMA failed to ensure Santos has the financial means to decommission its Reindeer gas field off the coast of Karratha in Western Australia.

Law firm Mallesons, which is named in proceedings brought by failed property developer FSM, has denied it knew that a former director used company loans to pay off personal debts.

The High Court has declined to review a ruling from the Victorian Court of Appeal that found domestic building insurance policies do not respond to when a defect arises, but rather to when loss or damage is suffered.

Holding Redlich has hired four Melbourne-based lawyers from HWL Ebsworth, including two partners, to bolster its construction team.

KPMG has told a judge there is no evidence that Arrium's share price would have changed even if it had recorded a $2.8 billion impairment, urging the judge to reject the shareholder class action's "intuitive" case on loss. 

Macquarie Capital has taken aim at the expert evidence of a shareholder class action over Nuix's IPO, saying it was "completely inadmissible" because the expert had answered legal questions that fell outside his expertise.

A judge has ordered hundreds of former Qantas ground crew to immediately receive their $40 million share of a $90 million penalty against the airline for its unlawful sacking of the workers, after questioning delays in the administration scheme.

"Quite unsatisfactory", is how a judge has described a revived intellectual property dispute between German drug maker Merck KGaA and US drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme over the alleged use of the ‘Merck’ mark in Australia.

A software engineer for Sportsbet has faced cross-examination over the role of phone operators in placing bets for users of its Fast Code betting, in a class action trial that alleges the system was not a true telephone betting service.