Two axed executives of real estate broker Jones Lang LaSalle have sued the publisher of The Australian over articles they say destroyed their professional reputations and cost them up to $15 million each in earnings.
Law firm Gillis Delaney has defeated a bid for third-party costs by a warehouse management software company that was named in an intellectual property dispute, with a judge rejecting claims the firm was not authorised to act and acted unreasonably.
The tax commissioner has suffered a major loss in a dispute with Malaysian power company YTL Power over a $948 million capital gain from the sale of its stake in South Australia-based ElectraNet in 2022.
Meriton has won summary dismissal of a security concierge’s Fair Work claims, with a judge finding the case had no prospects of success.
A workplace health and safety partner with more than 25 years of experience has made the leap to Thomson Geer, the third partner to jump ship from Holding Redlich in recent months.
A class action law firm is set to file a representative complaint against fertility services provider Genea over a data breach that led to sensitive patient information being published on the dark web.
Suspecting infringement of patents for its Parkinson’s drug, Xadago, biopharmaceutical company Newron has won preliminary discovery of documents from generic drug maker Arrotex Pharmaceuticals.
The funder and law firms that ran a shareholder class action against BHP over the collapse of the company’s Samarco Fundão dam in Brazil will seek approval for deductions that will see half of the $110 million settlement go to group members.
The managing director of the Australian arm of property developer Arada has lost his bid to bar a vote on his termination as he and the group’s CEO sling allegations of misconduct and dishonesty.
Two units of builder BGC have won a stay of building remedy orders to re-pipe homes fitted with faulty Iplex piping while they appeal the orders, but have lost a bid to adjourn the appeals.