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K&L Gates’ demand for $745,000 in fees from client defective and misleading, court says
Business of Law 2024-04-05 11:29 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has quashed a statutory demand by K&L Gates seeking $745,000 in fees from a former client, saying the law firm’s alleged debt included […]

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Mining magnate Gina Rinehart can’t fight use of arbitration docs as trial in family feud begins
Trials 2023-07-10 3:44 pm By Gareth Baker

Hancock Prospecting can’t challenge an order that documents produced in arbitration are fair game, as the mining company’s chief, Gina Rinehart, battles her children in […]

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Appeals court sets aside arbitration award in Chevron gas field dispute
Arbitration 2023-01-18 2:59 pm By Sam Matthews

An appeals court has dismissed an appeal from two contractors who worked on Chevron’s Gorgon gas field project who allege they were underpaid over $130 […]

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Barrister’s $800k bill with 52 entries of ‘getting up’ doesn’t cut it, court says
Business of Law 2022-11-07 5:46 pm By Sam Matthews

An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked ‘getting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work. […]

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Lawyer who acted for both sides in employment case loses appeal of misconduct finding
Legal Ethics 2022-07-14 2:37 pm By Sam Matthews

A court has rejected an appeal by a lawyer who acted for both sides in an employment dispute between a company and its former managing […]

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CIMIC to pay $492M to settle dispute over Ichthys LNG project
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-04-12 4:54 pm By Miklos Bolza

Engineering firm CIMIC has agreed to pay $492 million to settle a long-running dispute with JKC Australia over construction for the $45 billion Ichthys LNG […]

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Squire Patton Boggs breached agreement, but not ‘grossly negligent’, court finds
Appeals 2021-07-30 4:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

An appeals court has found law firm Squire Patton Boggs breached its contractual obligations but was not grossly negligent after it was dragged into a […]

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Clive Palmer can’t stay battle in decade-long ‘litigious warfare’ with CITIC
Energy & Natural Resources 2021-05-28 11:28 pm By Christine Caulfield

Billionaire Clive Palmer has lost his attempt to shut down a breach of contract case over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron project brought by the […]

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High Court rejects Rinehart’s ‘very odd’ special leave bid in dispute over mining assets
Energy & Natural Resources 2021-03-15 8:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

The High Court has rejected special leave applications by mining magnate Gina Rinehart to appeal a ruling which only partially stayed a legal dispute over […]

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Ex-Liberal MP can’t get names of News Corp sources behind leaked erotic lit
Defamation 2019-01-09 3:27 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge overseeing former Liberal politician Dennis Jensen’s defamation case against News Corp has denied him access to the identity of anonymous sources who leaked […]

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