A judge has handed Knowmore Legal an early loss in a negligence case by a former client, finding the client was barred from bringing further sexual abuse claims by accepting an offer under the national redress scheme.
A judge has rejected a “finely balanced” application to transfer a court fight between Waratah Engineering and Wollongong Resources over mining equipment contracts to New South Wales.
A judge has approved a 33 per cent group costs order in a class action against Sportsbet, saying the relatively high rate was justified by the risks of running the “relatively novel case”, which seeks repayment of gambling losses stemming from allegedly unlawful services.
Following the failure of two class actions to prove market-based loss from the Commonwealth Bank’s disclosure breaches, the bank is fighting the class actions’ bid to pursue individual ‘no transaction’ cases, saying they were “trying to keep something alive that is truly dead”.
A judge has found that builder DT Infrastructure’s application for adjudication of a $22 million payment claim against Downer EDI was discharged by Downer paying off a smaller claim of less than $1 million, which was the only amount expressly referred to in DTI’s application.
A judge hearing a dispute over Emerald Resources’ takeover of Bullseye Mining has rejected a bid by Bullseye’s former executive director to enjoin Emerald from retaining lawyers that previously represented her for a period of three weeks in an unrelated dispute.
Builder Q Group has defeated an application to enjoin it from instructing a law firm which allegedly failed to make a claim on time, with a judge finding a lawyer’s alleged omission did not mean he had a “personal interest” in the outcome of the case.
A tribunal has dismissed a disciplinary case brought against a Brisbane lawyer for allegedly breaking the ‘no contact’ rule and speaking with another lawyer’s client in a debt recovery proceeding.
IC Markets is fighting a class action’s bid for “highly private and confidential” information about possible group members to craft personalised opt-out notices, arguing the information would be safer in the hands of a third-party mailing house than a plaintiff firm given increasing cyberattack risks.
The liquidators of real estate investment company Global Capital Property Fund have sued the company’s current and former directors, alleging breaches of fiduciary duties in relation to a Queensland development.