A class action alleging a national personal injury firm overcharged clients will be discontinued after the lawyer behind the case, who failed in his bid to send a notice to group members soliciting funds, said he was not prepared to run the proceedings on a no win, no fee basis.
A personal injury law firm is seeking to shut down a class action alleging it charged clients unreasonable fees, telling the court that there were “serious concerns” about the irregularity of the proceedings and the conduct of the lawyer running it.
A national law firm has dodged an application for access to the files of its current and former clients brought by lawyers investigating a possible class action over allegedly excessive legal costs in personal injury litigation.
Police have arrested Titus Day, the former manager of pop star Guy Sebastian, over allegations he duped the singer out of $1.15 million over seven years.
HWL Ebsworth is on the hook for the legal costs of an unfair dismissal case won by ex-partner Tim Griffiths, and the law firm must pay almost two years of legal bills on an indemnity basis after it twice refused an offer of settlement.
An appeals court has slashed a $450,000 judgment against law firm HWL Ebsworth to $127,000, after finding a former partner who sued the firm for unfair dismissal had not lost the opportunity to seek other employment.
HWL Ebsworth claims it was justified in firing a former partner for being dishonest about why he printed out confidential material, as the firm challenges a $450,000 unfair dismissal judgment.
Law firm HWL Ebsworth is due in court Wednesday for a hearing in its challenge to a judgment awarding an expelled partner $450,000 in damages for his “irrational and wrong” dismissal.
Titus Day, former manager of pop star Guy Sebastian, admits that certain payments for promotional work should have been made to the singer, a court has heard.
A former partner expelled from HWL Ebsworth has been awarded $450,000 in damages after the NSW Supreme Court found the reasons for the termination were “irrational and wrong”.