Judges

Receivers appointed in proceedings against Falcon Capital, the firm behind the First Guardian Master Fund, have won orders to sell a $9 million Hawthorn property owned by the company's director.

A unit of developer Heworth has lost its bid to set aside a notice to produce served by Transport for NSW in relation to its claim for compensation over the compulsory acquisition of the Balmain Leagues Club site.

The operator of Hunter Valley's luxury Elysia Retreat has settled its trade mark infringement suit against the newly established Elysium Hotel in Noosa.

EY Australia faces a lawsuit by a former intern who alleges she was harassed by her manager, victimized after making a complaint, and precluded from participating in a culture review by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.

The former executive chairman at regional airline Rex has admitted ASIC’s claims that he misled investors about the company’s position and breached his directors duties and may give evidence for the corporate watchdog, a court has heard. 

Adelaide lawyer Jason Karas has failed in recusal application but has secured a temporary stay of a ruling that he pay $36.5 million to his former business partner and law firm LK Law.

Danish glassware brand Bodum has lost its intellectual propety suit against Maxwell & Williams, despite a court finding the homewares company's coffee glasses were a “conscious imitation” of Bodum's products. 

Investors have settled a case against HWL Ebsworth and a former partner that alleged the firm was liable for lost money in connection with projects by property developer Belmore 88.

Vexatious recusal applications by self-represented litigants are on the rise, according to the peak body for judicial officers in Australia, and they increasingly involve “unwarranted intrusions” into judges' personal lives that would not be allowed in any other workplace.

Two Credit Suisse funds and UBS on Monday lost a battle to shield documents in sprawling litigation over the collapse of trade financier Greensill, failing in their arguments that production of the material ran afoul of Swiss and Luxembourg law.