A judge has ordered an unnamed funder to give $415,000 in security for the NSW government’s legal costs in a class action alleging it fraudulently acquired land for the construction of the WestConnex tunnel and caused loss and damage to 3,000 land holders.
A judge has allowed the plaintiffs in a lawsuit over a Myer joint venture to tender extra evidence, after a $100,000 miscalculation was discovered during cross-examination in the final days of a hearing.
An anti-lockdown protestor’s application to have the High Court hear a challenge to the dismissal of her lawsuit over Victoria’s stay-at-home orders has been rejected, with the justices saying the case should be heard by the state’s Court of Appeal.
Six more fertility clinics in states across the country are set to be pulled into a class action against Monash IVF on behalf of hundreds of men and women demanding damages for the alleged destruction of potentially viable embryos.
ASIC has lost a bid to dismiss former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson’s application seeking declarations that she was unlawfully examined by the regulator over the company’s $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
A Perth solicitor has been reprimanded and ordered to pay a $24,000 fine after a tribunal found he had engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for pursuing a case that was “doomed to fail”.
A law firm that recouped two-thirds of a personal injury payout in excess of the statutory cap through a “potentially misleading” costs agreement will pay back a former client $26,200 plus interest.
The top brass of Sydney-based investment firm Curve Securities have been named in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee.
The High Court has reinstated a $435,000 judgment awarded to a former lawyer who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder while working for the Special Sexual Offences unit in Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecutions.
Engineering firm CIMIC has agreed to pay $492 million to settle a long-running dispute with JKC Australia over construction for the $45 billion Ichthys LNG project in the Northern Territory.