Barristers

An activist group can't block the owners of Claravale Station from clearing almost 3,000 hectares of savanna in the Northern Territory, with a judge finding it would be difficult to prove the government’s decision was legally unreasonable.

A tribunal has found the public interest favours disclosure of information about how premiums are calculated under the state's home building insurance scheme, partly overturning a decision refusing access to documents sought by Maurice Blackburn.

A recycling company has lost its bid to recover millions of dollars from its insurers, with a judge finding the insurers were not on the hook for losses arising from an EPA cleanup.

A class action against Johnson & Johnson over alleged ineffective cold medicine has attacked the pharmaceutical company’s application for soft class closure, telling a court the process would produce useless data and only need to be repeated. 

A judge says a shareholder class action against IAG can add a new damages claim, despite the insurer arguing it was untethered from any contravention and “clearly bad in law”.

A judge has ruled a class action on behalf of First Nations people in NSW whose children were allegedly unlawfully removed can bring a claim alleging group members were treated unfairly because of their race.

The engineering firm behind the Kwinana energy transformation hub in Western Australia wants the High Court to hear a union's case alleging it fraudulently failed to disclose information to the Fair Work Commission.

McCullough Robertson has won its bid to strike out a former client's professional negligence case, with a judge finding that its reliance on “common sense and experience” in its pleading was inadequate. 

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost an appeal against builder Devine Constructions’ claim for $3.7 million, as the developer seeks damages for alleged delays caused by water ingress.

Environmental activist group Lock the Gate has lost its case which aimed to block Tamboran B2's gas exploration project in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo basin.