Slater and Gordon has brought proceedings against a sacked principal lawyer who led the firm’s largest practice in its Penrith, NSW office, seeking injunctions to prevent her from poaching clients allegedly worth over $1.3 million in billing revenue.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told lawyers it will no longer publicise its investigations into completed mergers, which until now have been listed on the mergers public register.
The Federal Court has granted a bid by global solar cell manufacturer Hanwha to amend the patent behind its solar technology at the centre of a hotly contested infringement case against three rivals.
Maurice Blackburn is abandoning its class action against Westpac over the bank’s alleged responsible lending law breaches, weeks after ASIC lost its appeal in the so-called wagyu and shiraz case and conceded defeat.
The Federal Court’s top judge has refused a bid by the lead applicant in a class action against Crown Resorts to have the case declared a priority matter to allow Melbourne-based lawyers access to childcare while they prepare for a six-week trial.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought legal proceedings against four directors of Linchpin Capital Group, the latest action over the financial services firm that allegedly funnelled $11 million of investor funds into unauthorized business and personal loans.
Business lobby association Ai Group is calling on federal crossbench senators to oppose a move by Labor to block litigation funding rules introduced by the Morrison government aimed at curbing class actions.
Coal miner Adani has lost its bid to search the home of a protester seeking to block its Carmichael Mine project in central Queensland, with a court ruling it had not cleared the bar for the “unusual and extraordinary” orders.
Construction giant Boral must now contend with three class actions by shareholders alleging it failed to disclose financial problems with its US windows business, but the cases will stay on ice pending a High Court challenge.
Just four months after paying $32 million to settle a shareholder class action over disclosures relating to allegations of foreign bribery, engineering services company CIMIC faces another class action, this one alleging failures to keep the market informed about issues with its Middle East operations.