Professional Negligence

In a failed bid for discovery of internal communications at BDO Audit, Dubber has claimed a BDO employee sent an illustrated image of cash being passed under a table while discussing the firm's audit of the software company.

Cruise ship operator Carnival is fighting a lead applicant’s bid for $8 million in costs in a class action over a COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess, saying the counsel fees are too high.

A judge tasked with calculating damages owed former HWL Ebsworth client Gregory Lindsay-Owen has adopted a referees' report over his protests, saying it was open to the referees to refuse a $4.4 million tax adjustment. 

Law firm Mills Oakley is seeking summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging it gave negligent advice about demolishing an inherited property, which allegedly resulted in the loss of a capital gains tax exemption.

A NSW Supreme Court judge has refused to transfer a professional negligence case against a law firm from the District Court, despite the alleged damages surpassing the local court's jurisdiction.

Slater & Gordon is facing a professional negligence suit by a client it represented in a work injury claim against Telstra. 

A cabinet maker has been ordered to pay $108,000 in security in a $36 million negligence suit against two law practices who advised on a dispute with a subcontractor over work at La Trobe University.

Legal services provider Knowmore Legal has lost its bid to exclude a class action lead plaintiff’s individual claim from an upcoming trial in proceedings accusing it of providing cookie cutter legal advice to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.

A "practice of prudence" required a judge to recuse himself from a $1 billion lawsuit over the Callide power station, CS Energy said Monday.

A company that says it loaned millions to the owner of a Brighton property has sued HWL Ebworth for negligence, alleging the firm failed to advise on “patent ambiguity” in a loan agreement that caused it to lose $2 million.