A Perth solicitor found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to pay a barrister’s $137,000 bill and deliberately misleading the Legal Practice Board of WA has been struck from the roll of practitioners.
A litigant in an estate dispute dropped his lawyers and filed a notice to the court naming Dentons Australia as his new firm of solicitors. Unhappily for him he made two mistakes: filing the notice himself, and apparently failing to tell anyone at Dentons he had hired them.
A former solicitor with Schreuders Compensation Lawyers, who told numerous furphies to clients that allegedly cost the personal injury firm up to $1.3 million, has been ordered to pay compensation for damage done to the firm’s reputation.
Hungry Jack’s has resolved a case brought by a franchisee seeking a court injunction blocking the burger chain from launching two restaurants in close proximity to its sites on NSW’s Central Coast.
Dentons continues to grow its ranks with the recruitment of banking and finance partner, Yechiel Belfer, from Baker McKenzie.
The litigation funder and lead plaintiffs in a class action against Queensland-owned Gladstone Ports are in dispute over who should be engaged to act in the long-running case after the solicitor on record left Clyde & Co for a rival law firm.
Aussie Skips is fighting a court’s ruling that imposed a $3.5 million penalty against the waste company and sentenced its boss to an 18-month intensive corrections order, in a criminal cartel case that also implicated Bingo Industries.
Victoria’s gambling watchdog has cleared Crown to continue operating its casino in Melbourne, finding the gaming giant has addressed the serious and systemic failings identified by the Finkelstein royal commission.
US animal drug manufacturer Zoetis has been granted leave to appeal a ruling that invalidated three of its patents covering pig vaccines.
ANZ has agreed to pay $57.5 million in a settlement of a class action over retrospective interest charges on credit cards.