Judges

An ex-Keystone director has raised concerns that expanding a freezing order over his assets would impact his ability to pay his solicitors at law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Atanaskovic Hartnell is appealing a decision barring the law firm from enforcing a costs judgment against a company of media mogul Bruce Gordon and quashing a garnishee order directed at Nine.

Ray White has secured a stay of examinations of its employees, as a creditor of FSM Development investigates claims the real estate agency's loan agreement with the collapsed Sydney developer was uncommercial.

Mastercard has lost its claim for legal professional privilege over communications between its chief financial officer in Singapore and in-house counsel about merchant agreements the ACCC alleges were anti-competitive. 

A judge has approved a 33 per cent group costs order in a class action against Sportsbet, saying the relatively high rate was justified by the risks of running the “relatively novel case", which seeks repayment of gambling losses stemming from allegedly unlawful services.

A Federal Court judge has predicted class action defendants will start arguing law firms cannot cooperate in running class actions, after a different judge hearing a case against Google recently remarked that such arrangements could be anti-competitive. 

The owners of a landmark building in the Sydney suburb of Manly have lost their challenge to a decision which found they owed the local council over $419,000 in car park licence fees and damages for installing a roller door. 

A judge has found that builder DT Infrastructure’s application for adjudication of a $22 million payment claim against Downer EDI was discharged by Downer paying off a smaller claim of less than $1 million, which was the only amount expressly referred to in DTI’s application.

A judge has recused himself from hearing a 'sham contracting' case against Uber because he previously represented the rideshare giant in four similar matters when he was a barrister.

Explosives company Dyno Nobel is appealing a court's dismissal of its case seeking to invalidate patents owned by rival Orica for a wireless detonation device.