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A Melbourne law firm is facing a class action on behalf of former clients it represented in litigation over childhood sexual abuse claims.
A judge has told the law firm that has taken over a class action against Philips Electronics over recalled sleep apnea machines to take its time when amending the pleading, which he said was not the "finest piece of work" he'd ever seen.
A judge has ruled that a settlement offer made in a case can be adduced into evidence in a construction company’s suit against its former lawyers, finding that the offer was not covered by without penalty privilege.
The founders of news website Mamamia have secured access to their client file from a former HWL Ebsworth partner, who is accused of professional negligence in his handling of a dispute with the landlord of the couple's $16 million Bellevue Hill mansion.
Financial services provider Pioneer Credit has taken auditor PwC to court, claiming $32 million in loss and damages over its advice on how the company should value its financial assets.
A group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute have lost a second bid to declass a representative proceeding on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they were injured by botched breast augmentation surgery.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on the extent of advocate’s immunity in a dispute between a Sydney solicitor and his former clients, after an appeals court found he couldn’t be sued for negligence for failure to include a breach of contract claim in a building dispute.
Sydney-based plastic surgeon Daniel Lanzer, who is facing a class action by 1,000 former patients, has been hit with a new lawsuit alleging he performed a negligent liposuction and fat transfer procedure, which left a woman with disfigurement, necrosis and nerve damage.
A psychiatrist who gave expert evidence in a lawyer’s human rights case against his former employer cannot be sued for negligence because he is protected by witness immunity, a judge has found.
Pitcher Partners has lost its appeal of a decision that refused to stay a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family.