A law firm has lost a row with a former client over a pact to cap fees at $100,000, with a judge rejecting its claim the agreement was not binding.
A personal injury and insurance expert from Kennedys has joined Clyde & Co’s partnership in Brisbane.
The plaintiff in a flex commissions class action against ANZ has asked the court to approve a $85 million settlement, including a 24.5 per cent group costs order, citing the “considerable risk” involved in running the case.
Litigation funder Woodsford has responded to a former female director’s sex and age discrimination lawsuit, denying the claims and seeking dismissal of the case.
A lawyer for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been grilled by a Federal Court judge for failing to file a defence in Clive Palmer’s case against the corporate watchdog.
The High Court has rejected a special leave application by wealth guru Dominque Grubisa seeking to overturn a finding that she had actual knowledge that statements made by her company DG Institute to students who enrolled in her courses were misleading.
A judge has refused to allow four people to join a closed class action brought on behalf of certain people who were detained at two infamous immigration detention centres in South Australia.
An interim payment claim under Queensland’s SOP Act must include claims related to work carried out within the preceding six months, a judge has found.
Castle Group has acquired a 41.32 hectare landholding in Western Sydney’s Austral region for $119.5 million.
The head of Microsoft Australia will make the jump to Telstra’s $15 billion infrastructure business InfraCo, the latest step in the telco’s path to becoming an “AI-fuelled company”.