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Legal services provider Knowmore Legal has lost its bid to exclude a class action lead plaintiff’s individual claim from an upcoming trial in proceedings accusing it of providing cookie cutter legal advice to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.

A settlement has been struck in a negligence class action against cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer and his clinic over alleged botched surgeries.

Industry standards group Meat & Livestock Australia can bring a cross-claim for indemnity against the Agricultural Business Research Institute while defending a case alleging it infringed a patent for inferring bovine gene traits.

Monadelphous has won the post-trial reversal of a ruling that excluded some of its evidence in a $2.6 million dispute over alleged corrosion damage to a marine barge.

Two Deloitte reports commissioned by a Swiss law firm for Credit Suisse are protected by legal professional privilege despite access given to financial regulators investigating the collapse of supply chain financier Greensill. 

A class action against cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer, his clinic and a number of his colleagues has won court approval to amend its case two weeks out from trial.

Credit Suisse has dropped its claim for indemnity against insurance agent BCC under a trade credit policy issued prior to Greensill Capital’s collapse in 2021, with a judge hearing the admission marks a "complete u-turn in the case".

Insurance Australia Limited has settled $4 billion action brought by Germany's Greensill Bank and its administrator ahead of a six-month trial against the insurer and others over the failure of the trade financier.

A class action accusing Knowmore Legal of providing 'cookie cutter' legal advice is mulling an application to discontinue claims against the peak body for community legal centres.

Cosmetic surgeon Dr Daniel Lanzer wants to strip a case of class action status, arguing claims he and other doctors passed themselves off as plastic surgeons were not suitable for a group proceeding.