Colin Biggers & Paisley

Evidentiary disputes brewing in a $55 million defects case over the Port Botany Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre will be closely managed by the court, which has heard that the costs could surpass the value of the claims. 

A judge has ruled that the initial trial in a union’s underpayments class action against McDonald’s will deal with a claim that it knowingly breached the Fair Work Act and that there was a systemic pattern of conduct.

An employment class action against McDonald's and its franchisees has won a last-minute bid to file evidence by three new witnesses after a key witness withdrew from the case.

Making good on his threat to case manage the litigation with an "iron fist", a judge has set a trial date for early next year in four cases over the Port Botany Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre.

A2 Milk has won a long-running lawsuit alleging Care A2 Plus infringed its trade marks, with a judge finding the infringement was flagrant and rejecting arguments that 'a2' is descriptive of a type of milk that only contains the A2 protein.

Before the decision in the Brambles case this week -- the first shareholder class action to succeed at trial -- the path to proving loss from disclosure breaches was a thicket of, well, brambles. Now after six consecutive losses, Justice Bernard Murphy has paved the way for plaintiffs to prevail.

A deed of company arrangement for three companies associated with developer Descon-Adcon has fallen apart after former boss Danny Isaac failed to make a $5 million contribution required under the rescue plan. 

Transport for New South Wales is mulling an appeal of a ruling that ordered it to pay an additional $28.6 million for land acquired to build the M12 motorway to the new Western Sydney Airport. 

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.