Law Firms

An employment class action against The Reject Shop can redefine group members and amend its claims, but not with retroactive effect that may have exposed the retailer to a case worth tens of millions of dollars.

With evidence finally in after six years, Lendlease has asked a court to reject a portion of a shareholder class action’s expert reply evidence, arguing it unfairly introduces a new and unforeseen loss methodology.

A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed. 

Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found  it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.

Carpet supplier Godfrey Hirst wants more discovery to back up its claims that a competitor's distressed business bounced back after its former general counsel -- allegedly aided in part by Piper Alderman -- jumped ship along with a senior manager, taking “thousands” of documents.

OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix 'GPT'.

A judge has rejected a Double Bay property owner’s bid to put Chubb on the hook for any damages a builder may owe for alleged defects. 

A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.

The receiver for failed Banksia Securities wants a release from claims stemming from his role, including a case by investors who lost their life savings only to be duped by the class action team that represented them.

A fight over legal professional privilege is looming in a case against HWL Ebsworth and a former partner by investors in projects by property developer Belmore 88.