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A judge has questioned a contingency fee bid by Slater & Gordon in a class action against Insurance Australia, saying the risks of the case were inherent to almost every class action.

An appeals court has found Transport for NSW was not empowered to compulsorily acquire land for the ‘public purpose’ of the Western Sydney Airport. 

A judge has made a class closure order in a shareholder case against software company Nuix and underwriter Macquarie Capital, but rejected a bid to keep the order in operation until trial.

A top silk and a federal judge have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Tasmania, filling the vacancies created by the retirement of Chief Justice Alan Blow and the resignation of Justice Gregory Geason.

Law firm Lander & Rogers has advised property investment company JY Group on its successful $135.5 million bid for a 50 per cent stake in Sydney shopping centre Warriewood Square.

A new practice note prohibiting the use of AI in certain circumstances is needed to guard against "laziness" in the legal profession, says NSW Supreme Court Chief Justice Andrew Bell.

The judge overseeing class actions against Uber has approved a $271.8 million settlement, which includes an $82 million deduction for the funder and $39 million for the firm that ran the cases.

The owners of Australian fashion label Alemais have lost their bid to flip a historic Paddington pub into a retail shopfront, with a court accepting evidence about the pub’s contribution to Sydney’s “social fabric”.

A Bechara family-affiliated builder and developer of a 99-lot residential building in a Sydney suburb have avoided liability for $3 million in fire safety rectification costs.

A law firm is challenging an order that it pay $5.4 million in a class action against Macquarie Leasing as security for the lender's costs, saying concerns about its borrowing capacity were “theoretical and speculative.”