A former EY partner accused by the ATO of promoting a tax avoidance scheme over property developments has told a trial judge the commissioner has “overreached”.
Mayne Pharma and US drug maker Cosette have agreed to postpone the start of trial in a case over the termination of a $672 million merger to allow for late amendments.
Gilbert +Tobin’s executive partner and corporate advisory head Tim Gordon will join Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s corporate practice based after almost 20 years at G+T.
A judge that granted carriage of a Google ad tech class action to Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald has reiterated concerns that such cooperative arrangements between firms could breach competition law.
A judge overseeing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has raised concerns about a bid to bind group members to findings in similar cases by the ACCC.
Monash University has taken construction giant Multiplex to court after its subcontractor installed more than 1,000 bathroom pods in the university’s residential buildings with allegedly defective floors that leaked.
The High Court has rejected logistics company Qube’s special leave application asking it to clarify the scope of an adjudicator’s role in determining a contractor’s payment claims under the SOP Act.
The High Court has declined to weigh in on when a court should step in when the machinery governing the entitlement to payments in a contract breaks down, in a dispute between builder Glenvill and Amcor over asbestos remediation at an industrial site in the Melbourne suburb of Alphington.
The construction and infrastructure sector is seeing a growing demand for professional indemnity specialists in the wake of increased government investment over the last ten years and rising complexities around insurance policies, a Clyde & Co partner has told Lawyerly.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused his lawyer of longstanding, Sam Iskander, of stealing $30 million in legal fees from his mining company Mineralogy.