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.”
A judge has approved a settlement of up to $180.4 million in a stolen wages class action against the WA government but slashed the law firm’s fees and funder’s commission.
A judge has given the green light to a $75 million settlement in Tasmania’s first class action, brought against the state by former child detainees of the Ashley Youth Detention Centre.
An Adelaide barrister has lost his bid for suppression and anonymity orders in proceedings arising from a sexual harassment complaint made against him by a junior solicitor.
The co-owners of Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have won their bid for a preliminary trial in a suit against Probuild Constructions and several engineering companies over $200 million in alleged structural defects.
An appeals court has found that a claim by indie duo Angus & Julia Stone alleging their former talent management company owes $2.8 million in overcharges should proceed in a UK court.
The New South Wales Supreme Court has issued new guidelines barring practitioners from using AI in the preparation of affidavits and witness statements, warning it risks “diluting” or “embellishing” a person’s own knowledge.
The judge overseeing a class action over the $85 million sale of a Sydney development has expressed a more favourable view of the plaintiffs’ claims than a judge who denied them an interim injunction.
Health Workers Union secretary Diana Asmar wants to halt a case by the Fair Work Commission over an alleged $2.7 million false invoicing scheme, saying criminal proceedings were “on the cards”.