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Carpet supplier Godfrey Hirst wants more discovery to back up its claims that a competitor's distressed business bounced back after its former general counsel -- allegedly aided in part by Piper Alderman -- jumped ship along with a senior manager, taking “thousands” of documents.

OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix 'GPT'.

A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.

The receiver for failed Banksia Securities wants a release from claims stemming from his role, including a case by investors who lost their life savings only to be duped by the class action team that represented them.

K&L Gates has bolstered its international arbitration practice group, appointing a multilingual Clifford Chance alumni to serve as partner.

Nicholas Bolton has lost his challenge to Keybridge Capital’s move to remove him from the board of confectionary group Yowie, after he was found to have been validly removed as the CEO of Keybridge in March. 

Global law firm Baker McKenzie has poached a Corrs Chambers Westgarth special counsel to join the firm’s Melbourne-based employment law practice.

A new solar farm tipped to power 36,000 homes in NSW has been approved by the government in just 30 business days.

A liquidator for the defunct developer of a controversial south Sydney apartment building has won a bid to extend the time to bring potential voidable transaction proceedings.

A former SBS journalist has asked the court to take the red pen to most of a lawsuit alleging she engaged in racial discrimination with several social media posts about Gaza.