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Jones Day adds White & Case lawyer for restructuring practice
Restructuring & Insolvency 2023-07-18 1:45 pm By Gareth Baker

Jones Day has recruited White & Case lawyer Kathryn Sutherland-Smith for the firm’s business restructuring & reorganization practice in Sydney.

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Junior doctors beat back declassing bid by NSW in overtime case
Employment 2023-07-14 10:33 pm By Christine Caulfield

A junior doctor representing thousands of medical officers in NSW has thwarted an application by the state to declass her group proceeding, with a judge saying a “single determination” of the issues common to all group members was the most efficient way of resolving them.

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Residents near Graincorp factory can convert case to class action
Class Actions 2023-07-13 10:32 pm By Gareth Baker

A court has found that residents living near an allegedly loud and foul-smelling Graincorp oilseed factory in rural Victoria can band together to bring a class action suit.

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‘Commercial nonsense’ ruling shot down in AMP lease dispute
Real Estate 2023-07-11 10:16 pm By Gareth Baker

Willis Australia has won an appeal against its landlord, AMP Capital, with a court ruling the insurance broker is entitled to withdraw notice it gave in December 2019 to renew its office lease. 

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Google must produce details of email sender to disendorsed Labor candidate
Defamation 2023-07-11 2:55 pm By Gareth Baker

A court has ordered Google to provide former Victorian Labor candidate Nurul Khan with account information and IP addresses relating to an anonymous email sent to the ALP last November, which led to his disendorsement by the party just two weeks before the state election. 

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Mining magnate Gina Rinehart can’t fight use of arbitration docs as trial in family feud begins
Trials 2023-07-10 3:44 pm By Gareth Baker

Hancock Prospecting can’t challenge an order that documents produced in arbitration are fair game, as the mining company’s chief, Gina Rinehart, battles her children in a trial over ownership of a valuable tenement set to start Monday.

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Solicitor loses argument that costs assessors can’t get do-over
Business of Law 2023-07-10 5:15 pm By Gareth Baker

A Sydney solicitor has lost a 10-year-old dispute with a former client over fees, after unsuccessfully claiming a cost assessor’s conduct in issuing multiple preliminary cost certificates ran afoul of the Legal Profession Act.

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Care A2 loses bid for freezing order in case against Sports Flick exec
Corporate 2023-07-10 3:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Infant formula maker Care A2 Plus has lost a bid for a freezing order against the former chief financial officer of Sports Flick as it appeals a finding she had no involvement in a fellow executive’s “deceitful” scheme over a $5 million World Cup streaming deal. 

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‘Aldi bag of cash’ suit against Holding Redlich resolved, court hears
New South Wales 2023-07-07 1:32 pm By Gareth Baker

The NSW Labor Party has agreed to drop its case against law firm Holding Redlich for providing allegedly negligent advice over a $100,000 illegal cash donation delivered in an Aldi shopping bag.

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Beach Energy says it had reasonable grounds for oil forecasts at centre of class action
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-07-07 3:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Beach Energy has struck back at a shareholder class action over alleged misleading earnings projections for its oil and gas reserves in the Cooper Basin, saying it had reasonable grounds for its rosy predictions for production.

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