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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]