An appeals court has ordered a Perth silk to explain four bills in which entries marked ‘getting up’ accounted for over 36 days of work. […]
A lawyer has been hit with a personal costs order after filing “plainly prejudicial” documents with the court that caused the adjournment and re-listing of […]
A judge overseeing mining magnate Clive Palmer’s latest spat with the West Australian government has declined to issue an injunction preventing the state from enforcing […]
The operator of Perth Airport has sued government-owned Airservices Australia for allegedly contaminating the airport’s groundwater, which flows into the Swan River, through the use […]
Western Australia is set to become the fifth state in Australia that allows lawyers to launch class actions, after a bill permitting representative proceedings advanced […]
A court has awarded Western Australia premier Mark McGowan and mining billionaire Clive Palmer paltry sums in their defamation battle, with a judge finding that […]
Piper Alderman has recruited a former Mills Oakley partner to join its commercial litigation practice in Perth. Merial Steadman, who has over 20 years’ dispute […]
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 […]
Embattled mining company Griffin Coal has copped a $4,000 fine after being convicted of failing to meet its financial reporting and officeholder requirements. The mining […]
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 […]