Law Firms

A Sydney lawyer who sent profanity-laden emails to a Mills Oakley partner during a dispute with the Salvation Army and his mother-in-law over payment of a refundable deposit has been struck off the roll.

Ashurst has advised renewable energy company AMPYR Australia on a novel equity partnership and participation model with the Aboriginal community for a battery energy storage system in NSW's Central Western Slops region.

A court has found that United Petroleum is not bound by the terms of a signed lease offer sent to a neighbouring Gold Coast pharmacy operator, ruling the company’s property consultant had no authority to negotiate or enter into a new lease on its behalf. 

Dairy distributor Australian Consolidated Milk has lodged proceedings against competitor Fonterra, alleging the cooperative encouraged suppliers to break their exclusive supply agreements by offering a better price.

A challenge to a compensation determination by a group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy may involve novel questions for the Full Court on the role of scheme administrators, a judge has said.

Developer Kaloriziko has appealed a ruling which rejected its claim that a property deal involving related parties extinguished a $2.12 million liability to a builder on the 'Sky Gardens' residential development in Ryde, NSW.

Whitehaven Coal, which is locked in a fight with two conservation groups over the Winchester South coal mine in Queensland, has fought off an application for disclosure of internal climate risk documents created by a related entity.

A racial discrimination class action against the Northern Territory government and its police commissioner could "call into question" policing across the territory, a judge has said.

Atlantic Nickel has lost a challenge to further amendments to a case by failed suitor Mining Services International that alleges it lost the opportunity to purchase a Brazilian mine now valued at over $1 billion.

Arnold Bloch Leibler and a litigation partner at the law firm are among defendants named in a new case for their representation of the mastermind behind the scandal-ridden Banksia Securities class action.