The NSW Law Society’s unusual approach to a proposed case against a law firm principal for a clerk’s alleged embezzlement of client funds means insurer Lawcover’s summary dismissal bid must fail, a judge has said.
Ashurst has nabbed an internationally recognised infrastructure expert from Deloitte to lead Ashurst Risk Advisory’s infrastructure and energy transition team.
A company linked to the Victorian Liberal Party that provided a $1.5 million advance to former party leader John Pesutto says a case launched to block the loan should be thrown out.
Octopus Australia has reached financial close on its $900 Blind Creek solar farm and battery project in NSW’s Southern Tablelands region, clearing the way for construction to begin.
A judge who previously questioned why Geocon’s $4 million construction dispute over two Canberra developments was in the Federal Court has said he will continue to hear the case.
A solicitor who attributed a barrister’s submission about his client’s capacity to a Supreme Court judge in a letter to a costs assessor has lost an appeal of a NSW Law Society decision to caution him.
Wotton Kearney has nabbed a cyber law expert from Colin Biggers & Paisley to join its partnership.
Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not ‘in force’.
AGL has agreed to sell the lion’s share of its equity stake in Tilt Renewables to the Queensland Investment Corporation and Australia’s sovereign wealth fund for $750 million.