Barristers

Plaintiff firm Margalit Injury Lawyers has escaped a client's bid to revive his negligence suit, with an appeals court finding the firm was protected by advocate’s immunity. 

The developer of a 17-storey social housing in Greenborough, Victoria has filed a lawsuit against Melbourne developer Alpha14 Property Group seeking declarations that it has no interest in the property. 

Mining Services International is taking a $1 billion dispute over the terminated sale of a mine in Bahia to the High Court, after the receiver for Brazilian mining company Atlantic Nickel won a bid to stay the case.

The Foreign Investment Review Board has extended the deadline for ruling on Cosette's proposed $672 million takeover of Mayne Pharma.

Slater & Gordon has asked a court to summarily dismiss a negligence suit launched by a former HR executive who claims she was wrongfully accused of sending a firm-wide email containing sensitive salary data.

The Herald Sun has apologised to Victorian deputy Liberal leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, over articles at the centre of a privacy and defamation lawsuit brought by the pair.

Underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths want to expand their claims to cover a longer time period, which would leave the supermarket giants with even bigger remediation bills than the $780 million estimated in the wake of a finding that underpayments cannot be set off.

The NSW government is fighting a bid to add a direct discrimination claim by the lead applicant in a class action alleging racial discrimination over the placement of children in state care. 

A court has rejected a bid to expand a lawsuit over a Chinese investor's $27.5 million contract to purchase a building at 99 Queen Street in Melbourne to join the matriarch of the "very wealthy" family.

The Geelong Football Club has launched a bid to summarily dismiss or strike out claims alleging breaches of occupational health and safety regulations in a concussion class action against the AFL.