A judge has upheld a legal privilege claim over a transcript of an interview between a solicitor and a priest in an abuse case, despite the transcript’s production in another case by an insurer without an assertion of privilege.
Author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has sent a second concerns notice to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas over comments he made during a radio interview after her invitation to the Adelaide Writers Week festival was pulled.
South Australia Supreme Court Justice Laura Stein will replace Chief Justice Chris Kourakis when he retires, the first woman to be appointed as the state’s top judge.
An appeals court has upheld a ruling that said “like diamonds, easements are forever”, finding users of the Unley Shopping Centre do not have right of way over a council carpark and access point adjoining the Adelaide shopping centre.
Solar developer Green Gold Energy has lost its bid to bifurcate an upcoming trial in its case accusing competitor Trina Solar of misusing its confidential information, with a judge citing the risks of a retrial.
A South Australian solicitor and two Victorian barristers, including a silk, have been referred to the legal watchdogs in their states over court filings that contained AI-hallucinated citations.
Adelaide lawyer Jason Karas must pay $41 million to his former business partner and law firm after he was found to have covertly negotiated to sell the firm’s Hong Kong-based entity while in the throes of ending the partnership.
Commercial real estate broker Cushman & Wakefield has filed a cross-claim in a former managing director’s unfair dismissal case seeking repayment of a $1.5 million bonus.
The operator of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme has secured new partnerships with a South Australian wind farm and a Victorian battery storage facility.
The tax commissioner is challenging last month’s loss in a $948 million capital gains dispute with Malaysia’s YTL Power.