Barristers

A class action over Victoria's hotel quarantine debacle that settled for $125 million will seek a record $37.5 million cut for law firm Quinn Emanuel and $250,000 payment for the lead applicant, which was subjected to "public ridicule and hatred" during the matter.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as it fights a class action’s appeal.

Fashion retailer City Beach has lost an appeal of a $14 million penalty secured by the consumer regulator in the first enforcement action for breaches of button battery safety standards.

The co-producers of 'The Deb' want Rebel Wilson to hand over texts exchanged with a crisis public relations adviser, arguing they could show the actress helped coordinate 'takedown' websites targeting the film's lead actress and one of its producers.

A Sydney silk who recently represented singer Guy Sebastian and the liquidators of the Tahmoor coal mine has been tapped to join the NSW Supreme Court.

Gold Coast Council has brought a High Court case over a decision that found the city must consider the provision of affordable housing in assessing an application by developer Cielo Group for a luxury beachfront highrise.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as the court mulls whether to revive a class action by tower residents.

A former director of property developer Villawood has argued a judge should disqualify himself from hearing a contempt case after finding he gave false instructions to his Mills Oakley solicitor.

The former CEO of engineering services firm DRA Global has failed in a dispute over law firm emails he claimed were produced in futherance of an unlawful scheme to take control of the company's board.

A massive dip in the price of iron ore in 2014 did not ring alarm bells for failed Arrium's then CEO, a court has heard, with the former boss denying that a capital raising that year was an urgent measure in the face of the potentially 'catastrophic' drop.