Barristers

On the first day of trial in the Tax Office's case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was "risky but not illegal". 

A Dexus property fund has argued that a judge went the “wrong way” in deciding that it was forced to sell its 50 per cent stake in Sydney’s largest suburban shopping centre to Macquarie Retail. 

A Federal Court judge might be called as a witness in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's bid for a retrial in his failed defamation case against Nine.

A judge has thrown out Clive Palmer's lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton after finding the claims had no reasonable prospects of success.

Lendlease has lost its bid to allow a key witness to give evidence by audio-visual link in its fight with a company owned by the Macarthur-Onslow family over a Campbelltown development.

CityLink plans to appeal a February decision that found it overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast for roaming fees to allow users to use both toll roads on one account.

Former directors of New Century have won a dispute over a due diligence report prepared by Gilbert + Tobin in their litigation centred on royalty payments from a zinc mine in north-west Queensland.

Class actions against Hyundai and Kia over alleged defective anti-lock braking systems could expand "dramatically”, a court has heard, as a contest over competing cases ticks over into a second year.

AUSTRAC has sought to suppress parts of its case against the operator of online gambling sites Ladbrokes and Neds, arguing the information should not get into the hands of criminals. 

A lesbian group is challenging the rejection of its bid to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws in order to bar trans women from its events, and wants the appeal heard by the same judges hearing a similar case.