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The prefab concrete company dragged into a class action over the ill-fated Opal Tower has launched its own legal volley against the engineering consultant behind the building design.
A court has ruled that a litigation funder backing an unsuccessful real estate lawsuit by two broke plaintiffs must cover the legal costs after finding that the funder's goals in the case were "more to serve its own commercial and financial ends" than to assist its clients.
Construction giant Icon has filed a cross-claim against the prefab concrete company behind the ill-fated Opal Tower, seeking to recover at least part of almost $28 million in losses spent after cracks in the building caused residents to evacuate in 2018.
The Federal Court is pushing ahead with an expedited trial in Icon Co's case against Liberty Mutual Insurance and QBE over the Opal Tower disaster, just one month after originally scheduled, and it's going online to do it.
The High Court has declined two insurers' request for review of a decision that left them on the hook for covering part of a $6 million class action settlement by Bank of Queensland.
Herbert Smith Freehills cannot recover its costs for successfully representing itself in litigation with United Petroleum over the company's aborted initial public offering, with an appeals court finding the High Court's recent ruling eliminating the so-called Chorley exception for self-represented lawyers applies to law firms as well.
A Federal Court judge has frowned on a bid to transfer 12 individual cases over allegedly defective pelvic mesh to various state and territory courts, saying the manner in which the cases had been brought reminded him of the 1990's when "mobile phones resembled house bricks" and suggesting the cases could be brought as a class action.
A self-imposed cap on legal fees and a reduced funding cut of a $16.5 million settlement in a class action against failed construction company Forge Group was the right call by the law firm and the funder behind the case, a judge has said in his reasons for approving the deal.
A judge has signed off on a $16.5 million settlement of a shareholder class action against collapsed engineering and construction company Forge Group.
The construction company behind Sydney's Opal Tower has filed a cross claim seeking $30 million from structural architect WSP Structures over its allegedly faulty building design.