Senator Linda Reynolds has brought action against former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins for social media posts the federal politician claims defame her.
A solicitorâs notes of a meeting with an expert do not fall under an exception to legal professional privilege, an appeals court has found.
The judge overseeing the receivership of Melissa Caddickâs estate has pushed off a dispute about a collection of sneakers held by the deceased fraudsterâs teenaged son, including one pair that could be worth up to $12,000.
Transport for NSW is weighing an appeal after a judge found it was liable to pay damages in a class action brought on behalf of small businesses over interference caused by the construction of Sydney’s $3 billion light rail network.
The possibility that a NSW judge will revoke a contingency fee order made in a class action over Arrium’s collapse is irrelevant to whether the proceedings should be transferred from Victoria to the appropriate forum, Arrium’s auditor KPMG has told a court.
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has vowed to limit the role of local councils in planning decisions after the stateâs anti-corruption board delivered a scathing report finding property developer John Woodman âbought influenceâ from councillors in Melbourne and two state MPâs.
A lawyer accused of wrongfully using information obtained via subpoena in a family law case has been hit with a $2,000 fine by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, after he chose to appeal a reprimand from the NSW Law Society.
An appeals court has dismissed the appeal of Daniel Taylor, son of notorious former Kings Cross nightclub owner John Ibrahim, seeking to revive defamation claims over a 2019 article in The Sunday Telegraph which he claimed suggested he was a mobster.Â
The competition regulator has delayed its final decision on whether to approve ANZ’s $4.9 billion acquisition of Queensland-based Suncorp, after expressing worries the tie-up could stifle the growth of smaller banks.
The NSW government has been hit with a class action by Sydney Trains operations staff alleging a âsystemic patternâ of underpayment and overwork.