Hilbert Chiu

A judge has allowed a novel negligence claim in a class action over the NSW Liberal Party’s failure to lodge paperwork for local candidates, saying a High Court ruling that rejected a duty of care to protect against economic loss did not doom the claim. 

A group of insurers can't join Northwest Rail Link joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a suit by CPB Contractors and John Holland over a $100 million policy, with a judge saying the joint venture’s interests in the case are commercial rather than legal. 

Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland are pushing back against a bid by several insurers to join joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a coverage spat over a $100 million policy. 

A judge won't schedule an initial trial on the limitations period in a $150 million coverage spat between insurers and Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland.

Insurer Liberty Mutual has argued that CPB Contractors and John Holland's $150 million in claims in relation to Sydney's North West Rail project are largely out of time, in a lawsuit alleging the insurer breached its duty of good faith.

A judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class action against a group of surgeons who worked for the Cosmetic Institute, including a $8.9 million payout for the lawyers that ran the seven-year-old case, saying the deduction from the settlement was reasonable given the "very significant discount" applied to the legal bill.

The plaintiffs in a class action against a group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute have told a court that a costs assessment is not necessary to approve a $25 million settlement, which will see $10 million deducted for legal and administrative costs, in light of reductions to the fees. 

A group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute are set to pay $25 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they were injured by botched breast augmentation surgery.

A group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute have lost a second bid to declass a representative proceeding on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they were injured by botched breast augmentation surgery.

A class action against a group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute over allegedly incompetent breast augmentation procedures has been set down for trial over the “loud protest” of the defendants, with a judge choosing to accommodate the plaintiff’s no win, no fee counsel team.