Events

A judge has sent to the Full Federal Court Medibank’s fight to shield Deloitte reports into a data breach, raising concerns about how evidence from a solicitor and the health insurer's inhouse lawyer was previously treated. 

A judge has granted Shaw & Partners' bid for preliminary discovery for a possible suit against an advisor that jumped ship to Solomons Wealth Management.

A judge has found that a Melbourne law firm gave negligent advice to the plaintiff in a historical sexual abuse case, which meant his “viable” claim for economic loss was never pursued.

A judge has found Clive Palmer's appeal of a judgment striking out his lawsuits against former ASIC chair James Shipton raises important questions about what's required to advance a claim of misfeasance in public office and should be heard by the Full Court. 

A judge has dismissed a class action applicant’s claim that he was underpaid as a University of Sydney postgraduate student, but left for another day the question of whether the court should also make orders binding group members. 

The Valuer-General of Victoria has won a High Court appeal against developer WSTI Properties over a $2.9 million valuation for a heritage property in Melbourne, which centred on the meaning of an “improvement” to the land. 

A former Turner Freeman client is seeking to appeal a District Court decision summarily dismissing his professional negligence case against the firm and a silk over a dispute with an owners corporation. 

An appeals court has dismissed the corporate regulator's "logically inconsistent" appeal against a landmark decision that found insurer Auto & General did not include an unfair term in its contracts.

A magistrate has cleared a Tasmanian jumping castle operator of criminal wrongdoing for her alleged role in a tragedy that killed six children in 2021, but a related class action against her and the state government will continue. 

The Anglican Church's Brisbane diocese can't block the installation of ethanol tanks at a brewery adjoining the Francis Theological college, with a judge finding no "unacceptable risk” of explosion.