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Rebel Sports owner Super Retail Group has filed court action against solicitors at Harmers Workplace Lawyers and the employment firm's external media strategist, after revealing it faced a potential $50 million lawsuit by the firm on behalf of the retailer's employees.
Seeking to quash search orders won by metals company Fortescue against former employees who founded a green iron rival, a lawyer for the start-up has said three terabytes of data were indiscriminately copied, including confidential, privileged and irrelevant material.
Although carefully reasoned, last week's landmark judgment by the Full Federal Court finding power to grant contingency fees to class action solicitors has placed the question of statutory authority to award settlement common fund orders on more unsteady ground than before, experts say.
Telstra has been reprimanded by ACMA after the communications regulator found the silent numbers of more than 140,000 customers -- including domestic violence victims -- were made public.
Law firm Johnson Winter Slattery has recruited energy and resources specialist Nick Thorne for the firm's Brisbance office, an appointment that represents a reunion for a former Corrs Chambers Westgarth trio.
OTR Group's network of Smokemart and Giftbox stores face a potential class action that would allege the chains breached employment laws by depriving workers of breaks during shifts.
Veteran corporate lawyer Jim Peterson has left Baker McKenzie to join the Clayton Utz team as a legal consultant in Brisbane.
The Federal Court must guard against "exceptions by accretion" when weighing Westpac's application to prevent the public from accessing documents filed in a lawsuit by the bank's former head of strategy, which has resolved in a confidential settlement, a judge heard Wednesday.
The Environmental Defenders Office has replaced its chair and appointed a former judge to its board as it undergoes a review of its processes in the wake of an unsuccessful case against Santos over the oil and gas company's $5.6 billion Barossa pipeline.
A judge of the District Court in NSW has lodged a formal complaint against the state's Director of Public Prosecutions after the DPP griped to the court's top judge about her conduct while presiding over three criminal cases.