Law firm Barry Nilsson has been hit with proceedings by a former client who says was not informed the initial costs estimate of $6,000 provided by the firm had ballooned to $50,000 until her costs exceeded $32,000.
The High Court will not hear mining magnate Clive Palmer’s challenge to a court’s finding that lawsuits he brought challenging two criminal cases against him over a takeover bid and alleged payments to his political party were an abuse of process and should be stayed.
Unanimously dismissing an appeal by thoroughbred breeding and horseracing giant Godolphin, the High Court has ruled on the proper construction of a tax exemption for rural land in NSW.
The co-owners of Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have largely won their bid for insurance documents as they weigh a second case against collapsed construction company, allegedly worth up to $335 million.
A judge has allowed a coal mine truck driver to bring claims as much as five years out of time against Mt Arthur Coal and Chandler Macleod over alleged bullying by a colleague, finding the delay in bringing the case was justified by a period of disability which left the worker “severely impaired in her capacity to pursue any litigation”.
A class action over the Victorian government’s decision to retire Melbourne’s high rise public housing towers has agreed to drop claims against the state of Victoria and the minister for housing after a judge threw out the claims but allowed the class action to replead.
A solicitor has lost her bid to appeal a decision which found Legal Aid NSW did not discriminate against her by declining to offer her a new temporary employment contract while she was on pregnancy-related leave.
The Port Authority of NSW has been sued by a sand importer for allegedly acting unconscionably when it terminated a lease agreement over a development at Glebe Island in Sydney.
A Melbourne car dealer has largely lost a consumer law case against Honda Australia over its decision to abandon a dealership model, but is set to receive compensation for over 2,600 new vehicles it could have sold if Honda hadn’t ended its five-year contract early.
A judge has left open the question of whether a line of authority relating to the materiality of information under the continuous disclosure regime could be relevant to a stoush between collapsed engineering firm Forge Group and Clough Group, saying the decisions may apply to cases alleging breaches of the insider trading provisions of the Corporations Act.