Developers Charter Hall and Investa have signed on HWL Ebsworth as another law firm tenant for its $800 million commercial tower at 360 Queen St in Brisbane, which is expected to open later this year.
After a spat over legal expenses in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case, and a final agreement to accept $1.15 million from Ten to cover the costs, presenter Lisa Wilkinson has lost her bid for more costs.
A court has approved the discontinuance of two class actions against the Northern Territory government over its alleged failure to properly fund essential health and interpreting services in remote Indigenous communities.
The founders of carbon credit provider GreenCollar are set to face trial in a case by a company seeking to claw back profits from a business opportunity it says was diverted to other entities in breach of fiduciary duties.
On questioning by a judge, Star’s former top lawyer has denied making a mistake by failing to tell the board about issues with junket Suncity in May 2018, but said her view was different now with hindsight.
A judge has found Max Twigg must compensate his mother and several family companies after selling bonds traceable to misappropriated funds, saying he and his company “misled the court” by not disclosing the sale.
The trustee for Active Super has been ordered to pay a $10.5 million penalty for misleading members about its investments in gambling, oil tar sands and Russian companies.
A judge has found a $3.7 million error by an adjudicator in a dispute over a $43 million payment claim for work on an apartment complex in Queensland’s Main Beach showed a failure to properly consider the evidence and submissions.
A Canberra-based law firm is investigating a class action against the Victorian branch of the CFMEU’s construction division alleging the union blacklisted hundreds of members.
‘Link in bio’ social media company Linktree has denied it discriminated against a former exec for her pregnancies, saying she was fired for unauthorised access to “a significant number of highly confidential and sensitive documents”.