Herald Sun articles about Victorian Deputy Liberal Leader Sam Groth’s relationship with his wife, Brittany, are “precisely ” the kind of journalism protected by an exemption in new privacy laws, a court has heard.
A workplace health and safety partner with more than 25 years of experience has made the leap to Thomson Geer, the third partner to jump ship from Holding Redlich in recent months.
An adjudicator’s decision awarding $10 million to a builder on Queensland developer Heran Group’s high-rise luxury apartment building in Main Beach lacked procedural fairness after he went outside the parties’ submissions, a judge has found.
Nine has asked for more details of celebrity surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis’ challenge to the dismissal of his defamation case against the broadcaster, and says 10 days is not enough to hear the appeal.
Developer York Property is on the hook for an extra $4.7 million payment to the head construction contractor on the Midwater luxury residential high rise on the Gold Coast.
The publisher of the Herald Sun denies it defamed Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and argues it’s exempt from new privacy laws, in a defence to a lawsuit over reports on the timeline of the politician’s relationship with his wife.
A luxury Hamilton Island resort has lost its bid to vary the form of security ordered last year in its $15 million suit over allegedly defective rectification works completed in the wake of Cyclone Debbie.
Thompson Geer has nabbed a partner and a special counsel from Baker McKenzie to grow its Melbourne-based banking and finance team.
The Australian Financial Review has hit back at a defamation suit by the owner of Melbourne jazz venue Bird’s Basement over articles about a former employee’s now-discontinued suit, saying the articles were a fair report of public documents.
The builder of the Duke apartment complex in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood has blocked the property developer from accessing a bank guarantee, with a judge finding there were serious issues to be tried over payments under their $8 million contract.