Law Firms

Insurer Liberty is not on the hook for costs incurred by Seymour Whyte Construction for dealing with asbestos-contaminated soil, but is liable to cover legal fees for advice sought by the company.

A constitutional challenge to the declaration of the Melbourne CBD as a ‘designated area’ has been attacked by the state government as “hypothetical”, but the case is set to move ahead despite an early end to the designation.

Palestinian-Australian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has sent a concerns notice to South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas over statements he made while defending the decision to remove her from the Adelaide Writers Week line-up.

A judge has rejected a former SBS employee’s case alleging she was unfairly dismissed due to her need to work from home for medical reasons, finding it was an "inherent requirement” of her role that she come into work.

NAB has sued a group of insurers alleging they are liable to indemnify the bank for a $64.25 million settlement and associated defence costs in a superannuation class action against units MLC and NULIS Nominees. 

Liquidators of a collapsed developer have filed a High Court challenge after losing a bid to revive a lawsuit against a financier over the Pentridge Village development in Melbourne. 

A sublessee of an eight acre agricultural property in Austral has failed in his bid for nearly $500,000 in compensation after his crop was destroyed when he refused to vacate. 

One of the country's leading class action lawyers has left Jones Day for Thomson Geer, the third litigation partner to depart the US-based firm in recent months.

A Queensland solicitor has been reprimanded for trust account irregularities after she was "duped" by the director of an incorporated legal practice who pretended to be a qualified lawyer.

A GE unit has been hit with a $400,000 penalty after admitting it failed to comply with greenhouse gas reporting obligations for four years.