Clyde & Co.

Law firms will soon face costly new compliance obligations under the anti-money laundering counter-terrorism finance regime that will need to be finely balanced with their core professional and ethical duties, experts say.

Pacific Werribee shopping centre owner QIC says its misleading conduct case against co-owner Wadren and consulting firm KPMG is viable even in the absence of a defects finding in a related case against Probuild.

Colin Biggers Paisley has lured an insurance partner from Clyde & Co who has represented insurers in relation to shareholder class actions and regulatory proceedings. 

Lendlease has lost its bid to expand its case against an engineering consultant in the lead up to a 20-day trial in proceedings by the Australian National University over flood damage.

A judge has said that a series of cases stemming from a $55 million defects claim over the Port Botany Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre need to be "case managed with an iron fist".

An insurance expert with nearly 15 years of experience has joined Clyde & Co's partnership from DLA Piper.

A court overseeing a $356 million defects case has ordered Pacific Werribee Shopping Centre's owners to produce communications between an engineering consultant and Big Six firm Allens, finding legal privilege was waived.

A former waiter at the Melbourne consulate of the United Arab Emirates had been awarded more than $200,000 after she was discriminated against and dismissed after having a child. 

Several Apache Corporation units have failed to block Santos from withdrawing admissions in a long-running fight over $83 million in tax credits related to Apache's $2.1 billion sale of certain assets, with a judge finding Apache’s prejudice arguments were “significantly overstated”.

Engineering firm GHD Australia, which has recently been joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has flagged bringing its own cross-claims.