The speaker of the legislative assembly of the ACT is seeking to shut down Walter Sofronoff’s legal challenge to a report which found he engaged in serious corrupt conduct in his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.
The fact that at least three funders are open to backing a franchisee class action against United Petroleum should doom the class action’s opposition to the petrol chain’s bid for $2.3 million in security, a court has heard.
A class action over alleged botched cosmetic surgeries can drop claims against one surgeon, but the doctor will remain a party so other defendants can point the finger at him.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 developer has been ordered to pay Merkon $2.4 million for construction work on a Hawthorn residential building, with a court finding that the outstanding costs were still payable despite the builder having a stake in the units.