An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked âgetting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work. […]
A lawyer has been hit with a personal costs order after filing “plainly prejudicial” documents with the court that caused the adjournment and re-listing of […]
A Queensland silk who was subjected to comments by the late Judge Guy Andrew that an appeals court later deemed cruel and humiliating has been […]
A judge has refused to recuse herself from hearing disciplinary proceedings brought against a barrister over complaints that she used âjudicially inappropriate wordsâ at an […]
The High Court has declined special leave to a former Rigby Cooke client who unsuccessfully challenged the law firm’s win in a dispute over a […]
A judge has ordered Shine Lawyers to pay indemnity costs in a side dispute over an âobjectionableâ subpoena the firm issued five days before trial […]
A group member in the historic Black Saturday bushfire class action has filed a lawsuit alleging Maurice Blackburn was negligent in failing to bring a […]
A law firm has lost its bid to appoint a costs referee after reaching a $5.8 million class action settlement with the On The Run […]
Law firm HWL Ebsworth has defeated a Brisbane property developer’s appeal of a ruling that found the firm did not owe the former client damages […]
A judge has rejected a bid for his recusal from a contractual dispute in which Maddocks is acting, despite his personal friendship and holiday plans […]