A failed competition class action by Queensland electricity customers accusing utility companies Stanwell and CS Energy of misusing their market power has been appealed to the Full Court.
A judge has slammed lawyers for filing “staggering” volumes of documents in an interlocutory skirmish and racking up huge costs, warning the court may need to take “decisive action” to ensure compliance with the Civil Procedure Act.
A barrister who won her defamation case over A Current Affairs’ reporting on a cavoodle custody battle is challenging an order in favour of her former solicitors over contested costs.
The Wilderness Society has sued the federal environment minister alleging she has failed in her duty to create recovery plans for 11 species at risk of extinction.
Facing a grilling at trial in ASIC’s money laundering case, Star’s former boss has been accused of giving a false account of a conversation he had with the casino operator’s head of due diligence.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn is refusing to pay its lawyers over a planned partial work ban, practically shutting them out of work in a heated dispute over pay and reproductive leave.
Companies are facing complex challenges in managing information security due to rapidly evolving cyber threats and a complicated regulatory landscape, according to a new technology partner at Gadens.
A former client of Holding Redlich has brought proceedings against the firm over what he says were inadequate fee disclosures.
Ex-Keystone director Paul Chiodo’s company has won more time to file a defence to a new suit by Keystone’s receivers over a failed transaction for the purchase a Marriott Hotel in Italy.
Liquidators of collapsed developer Crown Group have brought legal action against the company’s partner in a joint venture to build a residential tower in Melbourne’s Southbank, seeking to force a sale of the property.