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AMA loses in appeal over $4.8M smash repair acquisition
Appeals 2024-07-24 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Two Gosford-based smash repair businesses have won an appeal in a dispute with AMA Group over the earn out amount the ASX-list company owed under an October 2018 agreement to purchase the companies for $4.8 million.

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Ex-Sydney Flames coach Shane Heal escapes costs over failed Fair Work case
Employment 2024-07-19 11:05 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has declined to order costs against basketball coach Shane Heal in his failed Fair Work case against the Sydney Flames, saying Heal’s claims were not “advanced without any factual or legal basis”.

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Court rips up law firm’s ‘positively misleading’ costs agreement
Legal Ethics 2024-07-15 11:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has set aside a costs agreement between a Perth-based law firm and its client in a family law matter that culminated in a $87,000 bill, saying the agreement was “positively misleading” with respect to the applicable hourly rates.

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Promise did not seal contract, judge says in tossing Cirrus case over NZ Defence Force training
Contracts 2024-07-15 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has tossed a contract claim brought against aircraft maintenance company Hawker Pacific by scorned subcontractor Cirrus RTPS, finding that a purported agreement surrounding a joint bid for services offered by the New Zealand Defence Force was not intended to be binding.

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Talent manager files appeal in Angus & Julia Stone’s $2.8M lawsuit
Entertainment 2024-07-15 11:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

UK talent management company TaP Management has filed an appeal after a judge dismissed its bid to permanently stay a case by Australian musical duo Angus & Julia Stone, who allege their former manager overcharged them by $2.8 million. 

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Judge to consider rare step of ordering costs against Shane Heal in failed Fair Work case
Employment 2024-07-12 11:29 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge is considering the extraordinary step of ordering costs against basketball coach Shane Heal in his failed Fair Work case against the Sydney Flames, saying the case was “very much on the margin” of constituting an exception to the no-costs rule. 

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Activist investor loses challenge to Atanaskovic Hartnell’s $300,000 bill
Business of Law 2024-07-11 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Keybridge Capital chief executive officer Nicholas Bolton has lost his appeal of a costs review panel decision that saddled him with a legal bill of $308,940 for work done by Atanaskovic Hartnell for his company in a dispute with Brookfield Multiplex.

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With no evidence but ‘years of experience’, judge refuses costs order against failed litigant
Contracts 2024-07-11 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has tossed an unconscionable conduct case against IT company IT&C, but declined to order costs against the individual applicant, citing his “many years of experience”, but no firm evidence, in support of a finding that the order would harm the man’s mental health.

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HWL Ebsworth, ex-partner file competing appeals over expulsion finding
Appeals 2024-07-10 4:01 pm By Cindy Cameronne

HWL Ebsworth and a former capital partner have both appealed a ruling that found the partner was invalidly expelled in 2020 but that his partnership had been dissolved from the day he sued his former firm. 

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Judge won’t throw out claims in dispute over crypto trading company
Cryptocurrency 2024-07-10 11:42 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has declined to toss most of the claims brought against a crypto trading company by a former director, despite finding the director’s case “is not an easy one”.

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