Accounting giant KPMG is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former long-serving employee over âunnecessarily aggressive, belittling and disproportionateâ emails allegedly attacking his professional integrity.
The world’s No. 1 men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic has won a court challenge to the cancellation of his visa, with a judge ordering his immediate release from detention.
The maker of the popular Invisalign dental aligners has sued competitor SmileDirectClub for allegedly misleading consumers about the cost and efficacy of its direct-to-consumer teeth alignment kits.
A Sydney-based barrister has been reprimanded for relying on his âgut feelingâ in making baseless accusations of misconduct against the principal of a law firm.
The New South Wales Bar Association has lost an appeal seeking a financial penalty and a professional reprimand against a Sydney barrister for his âpoorly judged, vulgar and inappropriateâ behaviour, with an appeals court finding damage to his reputation and a hike in his insurance premium dwarfed any punishment it could dole out.
The lead applicant in a superannuation class action against two IOOF units has successfully appealed a decision that barred the case from proceeding under a carveout in Victoria’s Supreme Court Act forbidding class actions involving trust property.
Payday lender Nimble has succeeded in blocking its largest shareholder from accessing company documents relating to an impending debt refinance, with a judge finding the company’s financial woes were due to COVID-19 and not improper conduct by management.
Law firm Maddocks has been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in indemnity costs for âthrowing good money after badâ in failing to consider a settlement offer in a negligence lawsuit over a client’s botched deal with Woolworths.Â
A judge has criticised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for treating timetabling orders in its insider trading case against Westpac over a $16 billion interest rate swap as though they were âtraffic lights in Naplesâ.
A litigation funder has taken aim at a landmark judgment in an appeal of a ruling that found its funding arrangement with group members in a class action against Queensland energy suppliers was a managed investment scheme.