Barristers

A judge has allowed a former MinterEllison employee who has accused the firm of unlawful dismissal to give evidence by audio-visual link from a “quiet, low-stimulus room” in light of her medical conditions.

Two former executives at Jones Lang LaSalle can bring unfair dismissal claims against the real estate giant, despite a solicitor’s error meaning the cases were technically out of time.

Nuix has blasted as defective and "exceptionally" late a proposed mid-trial amendment to the pleadings in a shareholder class action over the software firm's 2020 IPO.

Logistics giant Qube has told a court it is entitled to enforce $26 million in arbitration awards against Martinus Rail ahead of a larger dispute over Sydney's $4 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal and no right of appeal exists for its foe.

A judge has ordered a Gold Coast developer to honour two off-the-plan apartment contracts, finding it could not rely on sunset clauses to terminate the agreements.

A director of defunct Arrium has told a court he didn't believe it was necessary to revisit the steelmaker's iron ore price assumption before approving the company's 2014 accounts, even after the price fell significantly.

Potentia Capital co-founder Tim Reed has told the Federal Court settlement negotiations with former partner Andrew Joyce were in "flux" and never finalised, in a case by Joyce seeking to enforce the terms of the agreement.

A developer has lost its bid for preliminary discovery for a possible case against the Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline over representations made about pipeline upgrades needed for a proposed development in the town of North Dandalup.

A judge has given the liquidators of Tahmoor Coal the green light to expand their case against Sanjeev Gupta's Clydesdale Engineering Limited to allege that an additional loan document and more than $28 million in payments were part of an alleged voidable transaction.

A judge has found that new planning rules that make solar farm development applications more onerous in Queensland applied retrospectively to X-Elio’s proposed solar project in the Western Downs region.