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Law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell can't appeal a stay of a costs order in its dispute with media mogul Bruce Gordon, with an appeals court saying disputes fuelled by their “mutual animus” should not be encouraged.
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.
A judge has said Sydney firm Atanskovic Hartnell’s garnishee order was “entirely unacceptable” in a long-running fee fight with its former client, a company owned by media mogul Bruce Gordon.
A High Court majority has found self-represented law firms can recover costs for their solicitors’ work, but in dissent two judges said the ruling effectively restored an exception scrapped five years ago.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on when a judge's copying and pasting from submissions in a judgment crosses a line, a critical issue given the "systemic issues of resourcing" in Australian courts.
The Full Court has granted a bid for a costs certificate by a former Atanaskovic Hartnell general manager whose win in an employment suit was overturned due to a judge's "uncritical copying and pasting" of submissions.
An appeals court has set aside a $160,000 judgment against Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell after finding a “time poor” trial judge had copied and pasted submissions in key parts of his ruling.
A "time poor" judge's extensive copying and pasting of submissions and an offensive tweet by senator Pauline Hanson were at the centre of the week's biggest litigation wins.
An appeals court has set aside a $160,000 judgment against Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell, overturning a finding that a founding partner engaged in a "campaign of denigration" against a former general manager.
Media mogul Bruce Gordon says a costs dispute with Atanaskovic Hartnell should be paused until the High Court has its say on a key issue.