Global law firm Baker McKenzie has poached a Corrs Chambers Westgarth special counsel to join the firm’s Melbourne-based employment law practice.
The law firm running a shareholder class action against WiseTech is seeking a group costs order that would give it a 35 per cent cut of any settlement, arguing the relatively high rate was justified by the risks of running the case.
A law professor has sued Melbourne University for adverse action after he was allegedly suspended over a 2023 leaked email claiming Indigenous activism was leading to the institution’s “destruction.”
Retirement village operator Lifestyle Communities has secured a reprieve from a ruling that found its exit fee policy was unenforceable, but has said it won’t spend the funds it collects while the stay is in place.
The liquidators of iProsperity Group want Crown to repay $55 million in company funds they say were gambled away by the real estate funds manager’s directors.
The Western Bulldogs football club has lost its bid to avoid a jury trial in a second lawsuit by a fan alleging he was sexually abused as a boy by a club volunteer in the 1980s.
The co-owners of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria are seeking to join collapsed builder Probuild’s primary insurer AIG and several excess insurers to their case over $356 million in alleged defects.
A number of contractors have been added by builder Hansen Yuncken to a $14.3 million dollar lawsuit by Deakin University over alleged building defects at its Burwood campus.
Malaysian property developer SP Setia is strengthening its presence in inner-city Melbourne, acquiring the largest development site in Carlton for $114 million.
A superintendent on a $25 million Melbourne project had no power to make an adjustment to a payment claim for purported cost overruns that left the builder owing more than the value of its claim, a judge has held.