The federal Attorney-General has unveiled a new system for the allocation of more than $1 billion in external legal services to the Commonwealth government over the next five years, with just two Australian law firms approved in every practice area.
AFT Pharmaceuticals has challenged a Federal Court decision that found its Maxisegic ads were misleading and deceptive, saying the judge “set the bar too high” by requiring it to prove there was an adequate scientific foundation for its painkiller representations.
Jailed solicitor and fraudster Brody Clarke was not the mediocre, junior lawyer his boss at Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell made him out to be, a judge has said, but was considered a “young hot shot” who perpetrated a “catastrophic” $9 million fraud on media mogul Bruce Gordon in the scope of his employment.
The Full Federal Court has dismissed two appeals by convicted land mogul Allen Caratti seeking to prevent liquidators of five of his companies from obtaining documents seized in two 2015 raids by the Australian Federal Police.
A six-week trial set to start in October in the cartel case against mobility equipment provider Country Care Group has been vacated and rescheduled to next year, as the judge overseeing the case quipped that he was either the “canary or the guinea pig” in the landmark criminal proceeding.
Law firm HWL Ebsworth is due in court Wednesday for a hearing in its challenge to a judgment awarding an expelled partner $450,000 in damages for his “irrational and wrong” dismissal.
Pitcher Partners has lost it challenge to a ruling socking it with a $5.6 million bill for an accounting error concealed from client Neville’s Bus Service, with an appeals court saying there was a “clear and principled basis” to require the accounting firm to pay the sum awarded for loss and damage to the transport company.
A judge has refused to order the removal of a selfie photograph with model Kylie Jenner from the personal Instagram account of the former CEO of a trendy Australian sunglasses retailer, saying such an injunction would intrude on her “personal freedom”.
Actor Geoffrey Rush is pulling out all the stops in his bid to uphold his record $2.9 million defamation judgment against Daily Telegraph publisher Nationwide News, briefing a prominent Sydney barrister to lead his case against the appeal.
Country Care Group has criticised the DPP for the “argumentative” tone of the notice setting out its criminal cartel case against the mobility equipment provider, and has secured an order for further clarity from prosecutors.