A leading class actions lawyer has made the jump from Corrs Chambers Westgarth to Clifford Chance, drawn by the firm’s global reach.
CityLink operator CML, which was found to have overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast, has argued that it also overpaid and is entitled to damages, but ConnectEast has told a judge the claim is time-barred and doesn’t fall within a cross-claim exception.
The 12-storey corner office block overlooking the Victorian Supreme Court, which has housed Douglas Menzies Chambers since 1992, has been sold for a reported $23 million, with its barristers moving down the street.
The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower.
An activist group has launched a legal challenge to Woodside’s proposed North West Shelf gas venture extension to 2070, seeking judicial review of Western Australia’s approval decision.
Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have avoided a shareholder class action’s bid for early discovery of documents — including those produced to ASIC and the ATO — after Ellison argued it should wait until “numerous admissions” are made. The Phi Finney McDonald class action, filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 31 March,…
Pithy one-liners and even pithier rulings are just part of NSW Supreme Court judge James Stevenson’s legacy as he steps down from the bench, bringing to an end a class of judicial staffers known as “Team Stevo”
A consortium led by the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Company has launched a $30 billion takeover bid for Santos, the energy giant said Monday.
Rail operator Aurizon has secured agreements with BHP to provide logistics for the mining giant’s South Australia copper operations over the next 15 years, estimating total revenues of $1.5 billion.
Mobil Oil has admitted it misled consumers by falsely claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel at Far North Queensland petrol stations, but cites the challenges of supplying the fuel to the region, which it says was a loss-making exercise.