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‘I never struck any woman’: Ben Roberts-Smith denies punching ex-girlfriend in Canberra hotel room
Defamation 2021-06-25 8:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has denied claims that he assaulted a woman with whom he was having an affair and took naked photos of her while she was unconscious after attending a Parliament House function in March 2018.

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Ben Roberts-Smith admits emailing SAS witness about compound where alleged murders took place
Defamation 2021-06-24 4:43 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court that he exchanged emails with SAS witnesses about a compound where he was alleged to have murdered a man with a prosthetic leg in the lead-up to his defamation trial.

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Judge tosses ASIC’s case against payday lenders Cigno, BHF
Financial Services 2021-06-23 9:47 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A court has dismissed ASIC’s enforcement action against payday lenders Cigno and BHF Solutions, finding the companies did not need a licence to issue loans to hundreds of thousands of consumers.

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Nudie Juice family wants court to extinguish judgment debt
Restructuring & Insolvency 2021-06-23 2:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Members of the Binetter family have sued the trustees of a Nudie Juice co-founder Emil Binetter’s estate for settlement details over debts claimed against the family in a bid to extinguish any judgment debt against the estate, a court has heard.

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Intellectual property barrister David Larish on building a practice ‘from nothing’
Litigation Rising Stars 2021-06-22 9:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

For intellectual property barrister David Larish, one of the most pivotal moments in his career had nothing to do with working on a case.

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Judge slams ABC for ‘inadvisible’ redactions in court battle over The Checkout
Media 2021-06-22 2:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has criticised the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for “ill advised” redactions in documents produced in a dispute between the producers of the consumer affairs television series The Checkout.

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Ben Roberts-Smith admits to owning glass replica of prosthetic leg
Defamation 2021-06-21 11:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ben Roberts-Smith has admitted that he owns a glass replica of the prosthetic leg belonging to a man he killed in Afghanistan, as trial in his defamation case entered its third week.

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Barrister reprimanded for lewd gesture at professional dinner
Legal Ethics 2021-06-21 1:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A NSW barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner has been reprimanded for unsatisfactory professional conduct.

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Johnson Winter & Slattery’s Felicity Karageorge on why she’s always learning
Litigation Rising Stars 2021-06-18 11:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Johnson Winter & Slattery senior associate Felicity Karageorge first discovered she wanted a career in the law from an unlikely source: daytime television.

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Ben Roberts-Smith accused of ‘inventing stories’ on second day of cross-examination
Defamation 2021-06-18 2:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of “inventing stories” to conceal facts that would support publisher Fairfax’s version of events concerning war crimes allegedly committed by the former SAS soldier in Afghanistan.

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