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Mamamia founders win client file from lawyer in negligence case over $16M Sydney mansion
The founders of news website Mamamia have secured access to their client file from a former HWL Ebsworth partner, who is accused of professional negligence in his handling of a dispute with the landlord of the couple's $16 million Bellevue Hill mansion.
‘You’ve got to learn to take yes for an answer’: Judge not inclined to seek Full Court’s view on solicitors CFO
The judge overseeing a class action against collapsed investment manager Blue Sky has said he would not be inclined to seek clarity from the Full Court on whether the court has the power to make a solicitors common fund order unless one of the defendants raised a challenge.
AG appoints Victorian barrister as new top prosecutor
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has named the next Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions -- a Victorian silk with a broad criminal and public law practice.
As cybersecurity risks rise, Clayton Utz bolsters data governance team
Warning that board directors need to "up the ante" in their company's cyber preparedness, Clayton Utz has appointed a Big Four partner to lead the firm's strengthened cyber and data governance practice.
Ex-Arnold Bloch Leibler lawyer’s complaint against solicitor, barrister can’t be revived
A former senior associate at Arnold Bloch Leibler has lost her bid for review of a decision tossing her claims against the solicitor and barrister retained to represent her in proceedings in the Magistrates Court.
Judge wrings hands over ‘informal and presumptuous’ email to chambers
Though the origins of this growing breeziness with the court are unknown, the increasing informality of correspondence with her chambers has so irked a judge she has taken to task the lawyers responsible for one galling example.
High Court won’t hear law firm partner’s fight with ATO over exit payments
The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm's partnership.
Top judge of South Australia corrects JK Rowling on pronoun protocol
The Chief Justice of South Australia has corrected JK Rowling’s “completely unfounded” fears about a new practice note relating to the use of preferred gender pronouns in the state’s courts, after the Harry Potter author took to Twitter to criticise it.
Liberal powerbroker Marcus Bastiaan sues law firm over $400,000 defamation bill
Marcus Bastiaan has sued solicitors who acted in his settled defamation case against Nine over branch stacking allegations, claiming the legal bill was “grossly disproportionate” and almost double his settlement.