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Star Entertainment Group Ltd is facing a lawsuit brought by a high-roller claiming the casino giant owes him almost $14 million won at the Baccarat table over a seven-day gambling spree last year.
A judge has ruled the plaintiffs in the Gladstone Ports class action cannot reserve the legal costs of an application to avoid disclosure of expert reports, despite finding they had raised a novel issue.
PZ Cussons has lost its bid for indemnity costs against the ACCC, with a judge saying the consumer watchdog’s case over an alleged laundry detergent cartel was “significantly wanting” but not hopeless or doomed to fail.
Big Six firm Allens has admitted it should have advised a female associate of the disciplinary action it took against a lawyer accused of sexual harassment and has said it regretted its handling of the matter. But at a town hall meeting in the firm's Brisbane office on Monday, managing partner Richard Spurio remained mum on the repercussions for the harasser.
The judge considering the $50 million settlement reached in the shareholder class action against failed training company Vocation and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers has signalled his likely approval of the deal, but wants a senior lawyer to tell the court why the funding commission is reasonable.
The Australian unit of Greensill Capital is heading for liquidation owing creditors in excess of $1.75 billion, administrators revealed Friday.
A law firm may soon have more ammunition to back a potential shareholder class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments, its former directors and auditor Ernst & Young.
Family law solicitor Christopher Bowrey has been appointed to the Federal Circuit Court to replace the late Judge Guy Andrew on the bench in the court's Townsville, Queensland registry.
Once high-flying barrister Norman O'Bryan might seek to challenge a refusal by the judge overseeing the Banksia class action to revisit his abandoned defence and accept into evidence a document he claims proved he did not secretly hold shares in the funder behind the case.
Former Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC, who recently called for an inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter's fitness for office in the face of rape allegations, will represent the ABC against Porter's defamation claims.