Most Recent
Spanish construction company Técnicas Reunidas can't block two Pinsent Masons solicitors, formerly with Norton Rose, from representing Downer EDI Engineering in an ICC arbitration between the two companies, with an appeals court saying unanswered emails provided sufficient proof a retainer had been terminated.
The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more criminal matters expected to be brought by the end of the year.
The Full Federal Court will hear arguments next week in an appeal by the ACCC over an alleged laundry detergent cartel, the first so-called hub and spoke case brought by the competition regulator.
A ruling that valued land snatched by the New South Wales government to make way for the massive WestConnex highway at $23 million is invalid because of a Commissioner's involvement in adjudicating the matter, an appeals court has found.
Ophthalmic diagnostic device manufacture ObjectiVision can't file amended claims for damages following a trial in a copyright and contract case against the University of Sydney, with a judge saying the school would be "severely prejudiced" if the new claims were allowed.
A barrister for a class action against Radio Rentals has told the Federal Court the company's "strange" lease contracts may have been worded solely to avoid its obligations under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code.
In a case that hinges on the evidence of expert witnesses, the judge overseeing the class action over the 2011 Queensland floods has partly upheld an objection to a revised report by the state of Queensland's expert regarding an error in the flood-modelling by the plaintiff's expert witness.
Ophthalmic diagnostic device maker ObjectiVision's amended claims for damages, filed after a 25-day patent hearing, are "outlandish" and "unfair," the University of Sydney has told the Federal Court.
The alleged masterminds behind the $130 million Plutus Payroll tax fraud have been barred by the Full Federal Court from using insurance to cover their $300,000 legal bill in two criminal proceedings.
The country's biggest law firms were among the first in line to weigh in on changes to the class action regime proposed by the Australian Law Reform Commission, with one global firm cautioning against a weakening of continuous disclosure laws.