Motivated by greed, online educator Captain Cook College engaged in a system of unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of students who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses, a court has found.
Facing off in the courtroom against large litigation firms is never easy, says solicitor Christiaan Roberts, the head of Sydney’s Roberts & Partners, but there are advantages to being small and nimble.
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has thrown out a lawsuit against billionaire mining heiress Angela Bennett and her brother Michal Wright over the estate of their father, mining magnate Peter Wright, despite finding the siblings breached their fiduciary duty and engaged in deceit and fraud.
Third-party liability insurers may become the latest parties to be dragged into a complex class action over alleged defects in Sydney’s Opal Tower, which has has spawned six cross-claims so far.
Westpac and French investment bank Societe Generale have obtained freezing orders over $263 million in assets in fraud cases brought against a Sydney software firm and its director, with a court hearing that other financial institutions may also be at risk from the alleged fraud.
While Johnson Winter & Slattery’s Andreas Piesiewicz is known for his advocacy and ability to hold his own in the courtroom against some of Australia’s top silks, the 39-year-old partner opted for the camaraderie of the law firm to the life of a barrister.
Insurers Lloyds Australia and QBE have been hit with class actions by policyholders who were denied business interruption coverage for COVID-19-related shutdowns.
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has hit publisher HarperCollins with a defamation lawsuit over a book which allegedly implied the businessman had a corrupt relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is on a hiring spree, with the appointment of commercial litigation silk Charles Scerri QC and six corporate partners from MinterEllison.
Coffee capsule machine manufacturer Caffitaly has saved one of its coffee pod patents from a finding of invalidity, in a partially successful appeal of a ruling that stripped three of its patents from the Australian register.