The operator of the Royal Perth Hospital has brought legal action against Griffith Hack alleging the law firm contributed to the “dishonest and fraudulent design” of a leading researcher to transfer the intellectual property rights to a stem cell manufacturing method developed inhouse.
Law firm Levitt Robinson is poised to bring a class action against the Western Australia government on behalf of detainees in the state’s Banksia Hill detention centre as reports of excessive use of force and restraints emerge.
A former director of sandalwood producer Quintis, who is suing the company’s top brass over statements made to the corporate regulator, has won unrestricted access to legal advice the executives sought to keep a lid on.
An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked āgetting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work.
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 mining magnate Clive Palmerās latest spat with the West Australian government has declined to issue an injunction preventing the state from enforcing liabilities against Palmerās companies Mineralogy and International Minerals under the controversial āPalmer Actā.
The operator of Perth Airport has sued government-owned Airservices Australia for allegedly contaminating the airportās groundwater, which flows into the Swan River, through the use of toxic firefighting foam.
Western Australia is set to become the fifth state in Australia that allows lawyers to launch class actions, after a bill permitting representative proceedings advanced in the state parliament’s upper house.
A court has awarded Western Australia premier Mark McGowan and mining billionaire Clive Palmer paltry sums in their defamation battle, with a judge finding that Palmer suffered āvery little damageā to his reputation.
Piper Alderman has recruited a former Mills Oakley partner to join its commercial litigation practice in Perth.