Barristers

The funder that backed a failed shareholder class action against an ex-Quintis director and EY is fighting a bid for a third-party costs order, arguing such orders shouldn't be imposed on funders where there is no doubt they will pay up.

Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was pressed during cross-examination on Thursday in Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to re-open his defamation appeal on whether he has used deceptive methods or 'subterfuge' in his reporting.

Mayfield Development's competition case against NSW Ports over agreements to privatise two ports has made it to the High Court, with the developer pressing its argument that derivative Crown immunity did not apply to the port authority.

A court has allowed Ben Roberts-Smith to admit into evidence a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie, as the former soldier makes a fresh bid to revive his failed defamation case.

Logistics company Qube wants the High Court to clarify the scope of an adjudicator's role in determining a contractor's payment claims under the SOP Act.

A former cryptocurrency boss who faces a criminal investigation by ASIC is on the hook for a $10.3 million Bitcoin payout to a former employee, a court has found.

A judge has declined to make orders blocking a general meeting of the members of Cryptai, a company with a significant shareholding in Sam Altman-backed Ai company Rain Neuromorphics, in order to consider a share sale.

In new allegations, a former Super Retail Group exec claims she and a fellow whistleblower were threatened by CEO Anthony Heraghty at a mediation and that the company appointed a conflicted law firm to investigate her complaints. 

A court has awarded only $100 in nominal damages to the owner of a $5 million industrial site in the ACT, despite finding there was cracking in a concrete slab covered by a warranty. 

The owner of a patent for software allowing users to download live television that is suing Foxtel for $12 million has been ordered to cough up $260,000 in security.