A judge has permanently banned the director of financial services firm Gallop International from the industry and proposed a record $3 million fine after the corporate watchdog brought enforcement action alleging $40 million of investors’ money disappeared from Gallop’s bank account.
The third judge assigned to oversee a lawsuit filed against law firm Norton Rose Fulbright by a former partner has refused to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias, despite being accused of behaviour that was “grossly disrespectful”, “absurdly obtuse” and “fundamentally lacking in logic”.
A terminated Norton Rose Fulbright partner has won a bid to challenge a ruling in his dispute with the law firm that denied him access to communications between partners on the grounds that the documents were privileged.
A judge has slapped fines of $33,350 against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy union and a high-ranking official who pinned a project manager against a fence in a fight over a filthy portable toilet at a construction site in Adelaide.
A former Norton Rose Fulbright partner says he may file a contempt of court motion against the firm for allegedly failing to produce certain evidentiary documents for over two years.