The funder that backed a failed shareholder class action against an ex-Quintis director and EY is fighting a bid for a third-party costs order, arguing such orders shouldn’t be imposed on funders where there is no doubt they will pay up.
It lost its bid in the NSW Supreme Court to withhold a payment claim from the builder of a 30-storey project in Sydney pending an appeal, now developer VSD Investments has asked an appeals court to halt payment.
Two Nine in-house lawyers, as well as senior editors and journalists, are facing a contempt of court bid by individuals who are the subject of a suppression order in journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC.
The Federal Court is in no rush to issue guidelines on the use of AI in court proceedings, as other courts have done, despite its wide adoption in the legal profession and uses that have already raised judges’ hackles.
A former cryptocurrency boss who faces a criminal investigation by ASIC is on the hook for a $10.3 million Bitcoin payout to a former employee, a court has found.
Directors of a family-run construction company that caused a landslide resulting in a couple’s NSW Central Coast home being “effectively worthless” has been ordered to pay over $2 million dollars.
A judge has declined to make orders blocking a general meeting of the members of Cryptai, a company with a significant shareholding in Sam Altman-backed Ai company Rain Neuromorphics, in order to consider a share sale.
The owner of a patent for software allowing users to download live television that is suing Foxtel for $12 million has been ordered to cough up $260,000 in security.
In their fight against oral subpoenas they say are fishing for broader grounds of appeal, counsel for two MinterEllison lawyers said on Tuesday that a silk acting for Ben Roberts-Smith should apologise for remarks in open court last week.
A court has awarded only $100 in nominal damages to the owner of a $5 million industrial site in the ACT, despite finding there was cracking in a concrete slab covered by a warranty.