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A Sydney barrister who has admitted to sexually harassing a young female solicitor in a NSW Supreme Court conference room is facing disciplinary action for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
A judge has found the Commonwealth and Murray Darling Basin Authority are not "public authorities", striking out large portions of their defence in a class action brought by farmers alleging negligent oversight of water management in the critical Australian river system.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by famed Richmond pub The Corner Hotel against a jazz club formed in partnership with iconic New York club Birdland alleging infringement of its 'corner' trade marks.
Advanta Seeds has defeated a class action brought over contaminated seeds, with a court finding the Australian seed supplier did not owe a duty of care to irate farmers who allegedly suffered loss and damage from the decreased value of their sorghum crops sowed in the 2010/2011 summer season.
A court has rejected claims by a former client of Tucker & Cowen that the law firm entered into a binding settlement of $150,000 to resolve a negligence and breach of contract lawsuit over legal costs incurred in a protracted spat over a Nigerian telecoms company.
A long standing stoush over staff expenses between Bechtel and the Australian Taxation Office has made its way to the Federal Court, with the engineering and construction firm challenging a decision that funds spent flying workers out to the Curtis Island LNG site were not tax deductible.
A judge has found that Clive Palmer's Mineralogy breached an agreement with Hong Kong-based CITIC over the acquisition of mining tenements to extract one billion tonnes of iron ore in the Pilbara region.
A cryptocurrency trader has won judgment of over $1.96 million in a NSW Supreme Court lawsuit against companies owned by a convicted fraudster over a deal involving "millions of dollars of cash in bags and suitcases" and a settlement that was reached and then ignored.
Clive Palmer and his company Mineralogy will have to press forward with their appeal of a judgment that found their lawsuit against Hong Kong-based CITIC was an abuse of process, after an appeals court dismissed the mining magnate's allegations of "sinister" conduct by CITIC.
The Victorian Government has been hit with a class action filed by residents of nine public housing towers who were locked down for two weeks at the start of the state's second COVID-19 wave in July last year.