A law firm partner who alleges a Melbourne solicitor failed to properly advise him on a share sale agreement with Slater & Gordon in 2014 declined assistance before signing a term sheet that outlined he could not sell his shares in the firm for three years, a court has heard.
Food giant Goodman Fielder has won freezing orders against a former employee who the company suspects of a $10 million fraud and issued a slew of subpoenas to betting firms the employee holds accounts with.
Law firm Holding Redlich has been hit with proceedings over invoices totalling more than $334,000 by an ex-client who says the firm provided no cost agreement and made no cost disclosure over the course of an eight-month retainer.
An appeals court has rejected a challenge by a woman who said she was given negligent advice by her lawyers about two settlement offers which she rejected, finding that she would not have taken advice to accept the offers in any case.
Members of the legal community in NSW are celebrating the revival of the state’s 123-year old industrial court, the oldest tribunal of its kind in the world, with the new president saying it will be “unburdened” by numerous requirements found in federal legislation.
Former Seven News reporter Robert Ovadia has filed a complaint with the Fair Work Commission over his sacking, which alleges the intentional infliction of harm by the network and its news director.
The managing partner of a leading plaintiff law firm has sued a Melbourne firm, alleging it failed to properly advise him on an agreement that prevented him from selling his shares in Slater & Gordon before its share price plummeted in 2015.
A shareholder has filed an application for preliminary discovery against KMPG and water treatment company Phoslock as she weighs a possible class action over the company’s past fraud and mismanagement.
A funder bankrolling a class action against the NSW government over the construction of Sydney’s $16 billion Westconnex tunnel is locked in a dispute with the lead applicants over $135,000 held in a trust account, and wants to replace the plaintiffs and their solicitors, the third group of lawyers to run the case.
A senior barrister has filed another suit against Telstra alleging it flags his emails to Bigpond addresses as spam and fails to send them, after suing the telco for allegedly falsely promising he could keep his chambers’ phone numbers when switching to the NBN.