A barrister who won a defamation case against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has lost her bid to appeal a ruling in a fight with her former solicitors over fees.
A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.
The legal watchdog’s latest case against the owners of a Melbourne law firm — part of countless “collateral” proceedings between the parties — should be fixed for a final hearing ASAP, a judge has said.
A judge has given the greenlight to a $10 million settlement with entities linked to late solicitor and Banksia class action mastermind Mark Elliott, noting the “perverse” difficulty of recovering more of the $70 million in assets held on trust.
A tribunal has recommended a solicitor who continued to advertise his legal services on social media after his practising certificate was revoked should be struck off the roll.
A Sydney silk has been reprimanded and fined $10,000 after he was found to have engaged in “unwanted touching” of a female solicitor at a work Christmas function in 2023.
Entities linked to the late solicitor Mark Elliott are set to pay $10 million to settle claims by Banksia class action members, despite a related company owning $70 million on trust, a court has heard.
A judge has recused himself from hearing a class action against Fletcher Building, and has imposed a ban on presiding over any cases involving Maurice Blackburn for a period of time.
A Queensland tribunal has refused to set aside a costs agreement between Shine Lawyers and a former client, despite invoices blowing out to more than six times the original estimate, finding the matter had already been dealt with in a costs assessment.
The Legal Practice Board in Western Australia has confirmed it was the victim of a data breach, with the bank details of the board and a small number of practitioners said to have been accessed.