The New South Wales government has rejected a class action’s claims that it dropped the ball in relation to the identification and management of underground utilities which caused delays in Sydney’s $3 billion light rail project.
A judge has signed off on a group costs order in a shareholder class action against food company Noumi and auditor Deloitte guaranteeing group members a return of at least 78 per cent, but noted the law firms’ cut may need to be reviewed to avoid a “disproportionate return”.
The former director of investment management fund Courtenay House has pleaded guilty to five criminal charges after an ASIC investigation revealed he duped 585 investors in a $180 million Ponzi scheme.
An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked ‘getting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work.
A class action on behalf of 3,500 business owners along Sydney’s light rail route has told a court that group members bore the brunt of the project’s delayed construction, described as “a train wreck which could be predicted from a mile away”.
Twenty-three barristers have joined the ranks of senior counsel in Victoria, including lawyers who have helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars in class action settlements.
A lawyer has been hit with a personal costs order after filing “plainly prejudicial” documents with the court that caused the adjournment and re-listing of a five-day trial.
A judge overseeing two underpayments class actions against supermarket chain Romeo’s has rejected a bid for a private costs assessor by Adero Law, which will now go unpaid until at least January.
A top orthopaedic surgeon and former NSW Australian of the year has sued Channel Nine and Fairfax for defamation over a recent 60 Minutes episode and articles that appeared in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
A judge has found that the University of Sydney unlawfully terminated the employment of a political economy lecturer who was fired for conduct that included showing students a slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag.