The judge hearing a harassment suit by an in-house counsel at Dovetail has urged the software firm to “pull off the band-aid” and share text message evidence between the lawyer and company CEO Benjamin Humphrey.
A NSW Supreme Court judge has found the Barristers Benevolent Association of NSW can use its funds to support mental health care for legal practitioners.
A judge has held off on orders requiring Maurice Blackburn to turn over financial information to Sportsbet in a class action over unlawful in-play betting, saying the parties should first confer on the issue of security for costs.
The funder of a failed class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and EY and has been hit with costs, despite arguing the order would set a bad precedent.
A judge has temporarily excused uranium miner Paladin Energy from providing initial discovery in a shareholder class action, as the parties wait for a competing class action to be filed.
The ATO has won its challenge to a finding that it waived privilege over draft expert reports in an email referring to its contents, with a court saying disclosure of the substance of information is not per se inconsistent with maintaining privilege.
Sharvain Façades has won extra time to convene a second creditors’ meeting to pursue a $3.28 million win against Roberts Co, but not based on the argument that SOPA says its liquidation would bar enforcement of the judgment.
A dispute over a scuppered transaction between the director of collapsed Keystone and the owner of the Marriott Hotel in Venice has been settled.
With three months until trial, a judge has knocked back a former ANZ trader’s bid to appeal a decision which barred him from amending his case for what would have been the thirteenth time.
The state of Victoria has sounded alarm bells about an amendment application by a class action over the COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, telling a judge it amounts to a new case with an “infinite number of permutations”.