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Fletcher Building unit points finger at BGC in pipes class action
Class Actions 2025-10-22 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Iplex Pipelines has argued builder BGC should hand over documents relating to its estimate that it will cost $123 million to fix homes it claims were fitted with faulty pipes manufactured by the Fletcher Building unit.

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BDO points finger at Dubber CEO, solicitor in defence to $26M case
Accounting 2025-10-21 11:53 pm By Sam Matthews

Auditor BDO has hit back at a negligence suit by Dubber over $26.6 million in alleged missing funds, making proportionate liability claims against the software company’s former CEO and external solicitor, who is said to have disbursed company funds “wrongly and in breach of trust”.

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Developer sues Maddocks over Toorak penthouse deal with millionaire
Real Estate 2025-09-19 11:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Developer Techin MBS has filed a lawsuit against Maddocks, claiming the law firm is liable for negligence if a contract of sale for a penthouse in Toorak with multi-millionaire Scott Shearman is not found to be binding.

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Former client accuses Shine Lawyers of suing wrong defendant
Professional Negligence 2025-09-11 11:29 pm By Sam Matthews

Shine Lawyers has been hit with a negligence suit by a former client who says he lost the chance to recover damages in a personal injury case after the firm sued the wrong party.

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Declassing bid fails in class action over ‘cookie cutter’ legal advice
Class Actions 2025-09-09 11:22 pm By Sam Matthews

The peak body for community legal centres has lost its bid to declass a class action alleging survivors of institutional child sexual abuse who settled their claims under the National Redress Scheme were given negligent ‘cookie cutter’ legal advice.

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Knowmore Legal suffers preliminary loss in negligence case
Professional Negligence 2025-09-02 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has handed Knowmore Legal an early loss in a negligence case by a former client, finding the client was barred from bringing further sexual abuse claims by accepting an offer under the national redress scheme.

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Murray Darling authority slams class action’s ‘incoherent’ duty of care claim
Trials 2025-08-14 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.

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Murray Darling class action a ‘world away’ from failed climate change case, court told
Trials 2025-08-11 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

On the first day of trial, a court has heard a class action over alleged negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system is a “world away” from a climate change class action that recently failed at trial. 

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HWL Ebsworth loses fight over referees in developer’s $130M negligence case
Professional Negligence 2025-08-12 11:49 pm By Christine Caulfield

Law firm HWL Ebsworth, which was found liable for negligence over advice on a Parramatta land development, has lost its opposition to a referee process for calculating damages.

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‘The end is still not in sight’: Judge favors referee path for damages in HWLE case
Real Estate 2025-07-29 11:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A lot has changed in Australia and the US since 2016, when Turnbull and Obama were still in power, but the same can’t be said for a negligence suit against HWL Ebsworth filed by a client that year, laments a wistful judge.

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