Boutique law firm Barry Nilsson has snagged a Norton Rose Fulbright disputes partner who specialises in healthcare product liability class actions and his five-member team to join its Sydney office.
Transport for NSW has refused to hand over transactional documents related to its $16 billion Westconnex project in a class action over the alleged fraudulent acquisition of land to construct the tunnel in inner western Sydney.
Star Entertainment can add new claims to a dispute over renovations at its Sydney casino, despite the fact that the defendant builder may be time barred from deflecting liability onto a subcontractor.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has derided former Attorney-General Christian Porter for reportedly leading Clive Palmer’s $300 billion arbitration claim against the federal government.
The NSW state racing authority has won access to communications between public relations firm Cato & Clive and five other racing bodies, including Racing Victoria, as it weighs a lawsuit alleging they plotted to exclude the body from the Australian horseracing industry.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s former boss Emma Dunch has discontinued her unfair dismissal case in which she claimed she was terminated for investigating multiple claims of sexual harassment by musicians.
The Full Court has found that a policy exclusion applies in a dispute between Acciona Infrastructure and Ferrovial Construction and three insurers over coverage for loss and damage caused by heavy rainfall during the construction of the $695 million Pacific Highway in northern New South Wales.
A judge overseeing a competition class action against Queensland power companies Stanwell and CS Energy has warned that judges need to be inventive in how they manage large group proceedings, otherwise the “system will collapse”.
A lawyer who represented murder suspect Henry Keogh has failed to secure payment of his professional fees out of an ex-gratia payment to Keogh from the South Australian government, after an appeals court found the contingency under his retainer never arose.
Johnson Winter Slattery has lured a long time Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyer to join its real estate team in Melbourne as a special counsel.