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The High Court has agreed to weigh in on when uncommon use of land amounts to a nuisance in a class action by small business owners over Sydney's light rail construction.
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The heir to a Queensland concrete empire has been granted access to Neilsen Group's books following a dispute with her brother over the company's operations that resulted in her appointment as a director.
A former Dentons property partner claims he lost the opportunity for promotion when he was forced to resign, but the firm argues his own misconduct put paid to his prospects of joining the equity ranks.
Dentons has nabbed former Hamilton Locke tax disputes partner Damien Bourke, who wants to build up the team aggressively and nominated ATO understaffing as a pressing issue.
A court has approved a settlement worth up to $202 million in a stolen wages class action against the government, but will hear further argument on the legal costs of the case.
A judge has found that Telstra did not violate disability discrimination laws when it put a hard-of-hearing Triple-0 operator on leave after she failed a hearing test.
The High Court has agreed to rule on whether common fund orders can ever be made in class actions, including so-called solicitors' common fund orders allowing lawyers to earn a cut of any settlement.
The corporate cop has launched a formal investigation after the airing of tax evasion allegations against Mineral Resources' billionaire founder, Chris Ellison.
Carnival has settled a class action on behalf of passengers on a seven-day South Pacific voyage that became the "cruise from hell" when their vessel sailed into a Category 5 cyclone.
As Mineral Resources and WiseTech face shareholder glare over accusations levelled at their billionaire bosses, it is Herbert Smith Freehills that their embattled boards have turned to.