A judge has rejected a new pleading that would have upped the damages to $135 million in a case by a shareholder of failed energy company Armour Group alleging law firm Baker McKenzie was knowingly involved in a plan to take control of the company for cheap.
Disgraced barrister Norman O’Bryan will seek to grill two witnesses for the prosecution in a criminal case accusing the former silk of attempting to fraudulently obtain $1.3 million in fees.
A judge hearing a discovery spat in a suit by Rio Tinto unit Energy Resources has slashed two affidavits from the company’s lawyers, calling them “little more than dogmatic statements”.
Dentons has welcomed a partner from Baker McKenzie to join its infrastructure, major projects, and energy team in the firm’s Melbourne office.
Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a developer’s suit for damages over a $2 million compulsory land acquisition.
An appeal by publican Feros Group against the Shoalhaven City Council’s rejection of its plan to expand a Victorian-era pub has been dismissed by the NSW Land and Environment Court.
The plaintiff in a negligence case against Waller Legal has told a court the firm ignored his “blindingly clear” claim for loss of earning capacity in a historic sexual abuse case.
The plaintiffs in a shareholder class action against Lendlease have lost their bid for further discovery from the builder, with a judge taking a swipe for their “flagrant” failure to meet deadlines.
The former owner of 28 hectares of land in Western Sydney has sued Sydney Water, alleging it deliberately sought to prevent the sale of the property on the open market and disputing a $347 million valuation.
The plaintiff in a negligence case against Waller Legal has failed in his last-minute call to vacate the trial to obtain more documents, an exercise a judge said would “make a mockery of the Civil Procedure Act”.