Clayton Utz

Class action firms reaping the benefits of contingency fees should brace for more high-dollar security for costs applications, on top of the reputational risks of having their finances aired in court, defence lawyers told Lawyerly. 

A Western Sydney landowner has secured a partial win in its challenge to the valuation of land compulsorily acquired for the M12 Motorway.

Clayton Utz has lured an environmental and planning law specialist from Norton Rose Fulbright to join the firm's Brisbane office.

A former director of property developer Villawood has argued a judge should disqualify himself from hearing a contempt case after finding he gave false instructions to his Mills Oakley solicitor.

Richard White’s anti-money laundering software company Kyckr has denied unfair dismissal claims by its former chief technical officer, saying she never raised concerns about serious technical vulnerabilities and governance issues ahead of a proposed acquisition.

A class action against Allergan over recalled breast implants has lost its bid to strike out the US drug company’s defence that there was no known causal link between its implants and a certain form of cancer at the time of supply.

A landowner that lost a bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property has taken its fight with the council to the High Court.

Ashurst Perkins Coie has brought on a recently promoted partner from Clayton Utz to grow its litigation practice.

Inpex says damages against AkzoNobel could increase "very significantly" if the court adopts its position on a referee's report and it succeeds on liability in its suit over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys gas project.