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A court has rejected an appeal by a lawyer who acted for both sides in an employment dispute between a company and its former managing director and advised the director to "take and park" over $370,000 from the company account as leverage.
Embattled mining company Griffin Coal has copped a $4,000 fine after being convicted of failing to meet its financial reporting and officeholder requirements.
Western Australian energy company UON has won a bid to file amended claims in two Federal Court proceedings over a mining invention it says was stolen by a rival, after DLA Piper took over the cases from local firm Bennett + Co.
A judge has tossed a class action brought by a self-represented applicant against Wilson Security, saying class actions should not be run without lawyers.
The Australian Conservation Foundation has brought proceedings against oil and gas producer Woodside Energy, arguing its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia cannot go ahead until its climate impacts are assessed.
Lawyers who were found to be negligent in drafting orders after a successful appeal in a corporate oppression case have to foot their own costs after incurring “wasted or unnecessary” fees, an appeals court has held.
An appeals court has overturned a decision banning a lawyer from practice with retrospective effect and ordering her to pay $20,000 in legal costs, after a tribunal sanctioned her for allegedly misleading a court employee and making “offensive” remarks in 2016.
A lawyer who failed to pay $23,000 in fees to senior counsel and made a groundless complaint to the bar association to use as a “bargaining chip” engaged in professional misconduct, a tribunal has found.
United Petroleum has taken Perth Airport to court, arguing it was induced to enter a $900,000 lease and construction agreement at the airport’s central precinct with empty promises of redevelopment at the site.
A Perth solicitor has been reprimanded and ordered to pay a $24,000 fine after a tribunal found he had engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for pursuing a case that was “doomed to fail”.