A key issue in the ACCC’s price-fixing case against Downer EDI’s Spotless and Ventia is likely to focus on whether the facilities services companies were in competition, a court has heard.
HWL Ebsworth has lost a discovery spat in a case by clients who allege the firm and one of its former partners are liable for “lost money” in connection with property developer Belmore 88.
John Gorton Developments has been ordered to pay $1 million into court amid a spat with Chase Construction, with a judge noting building policy objectives favoured a ‘pay now, fight later’ system.
Four directors of coal producer TerraCom have flagged they will not show their hand in the corporate regulator’s first-ever case alleging breaches of whistleblower protections.
A court has granted a rare stay over a judgment debt to the developer of a Taringa Coles shopping centre, finding if final judgment comes down in its favour, financially troubled builder Kenik may not be able to repay the funds.
The Full Court has found insurer Allianz is not liable to indemnify the Uniting Church for historic claims of sexual abuse at exclusive Sydney boys’ private school Knox Grammar.
A frequent advisor to the Commonwealth and government ministers will join Norton Rose Fulbright’s Canberra office after 13 years at HWL Ebsworth.
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.
A judge hearing a discovery spat in a suit by Rio Tinto unit Energy Resources has slashed two affidavits from the company’s lawyers, calling them “little more than dogmatic statements”.
An appeals court has overturned a ruling that HWL Ebsworth invalidly expelled a capital partner in 2020 and rejected claims the firm improperly sought to exclude him from a proposed IPO.