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Owners of Sydney’s Mascot Towers are facing a “parlous situation” as they file an urgent court bid to sell the two buildings after $16 million was spent to repair structural cracks that made the apartments unliveable.
A judge has rejected a court-appointed costs assessor’s opinion that engaging a silk to fight an interlocutory application in a spat between two Queensland law firms was “plainly a luxury”.
The former director of Queensland Nickel and nephew of mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost another bid to dodge contempt proceedings brought by the collapsed company’s liquidators.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released details of its allegations against embattled property developer Sasha Hopkins, who is the subject of several freezing orders won by the regulator earlier this month.
A judge has revived a long-running suit against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and Victorian state secretary John Setka, granting the plaintiffs leave to appeal orders dismissing the case and file an eighth iteration of their pleadings against the union over the infamous Pentridge building site.
Agricultural chemical company Nufarm has appealed a decision giving rival Advanta Seeds extra time to pay a renewal fee for its patent for a hybrid plant cell after correspondence from its lawyers was sent to employees that had left the company and the patent renewal fell through the cracks.
A judge has criticised the Andrews government for withholding information about the alleged transmission of COVID-19 to a security guard working in hotel quarantine in a class action claiming lapses in the program caused Victorian businesses to suffer losses.
The law firm behind Australia’s first privacy class action is investigating a recent breach which left the personal information of thousands of participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme exposed.
A solicitor who says she wasn’t paid for three years before her termination is suing her former employer -- a “community-oriented” Sydney law firm -- for over $185,000 in unpaid wages and other entitlements.
A former solicitor at the Victorian state revenue office who was dismissed after alleged sexual harassment and “scandalous staring” has won his appeal in a defamation case against the Victorian government, with the case being sent to a judge for trial.