High Court

Jailed former Labor politicians Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid, and his son Moses Obeid, have asked the High Court to toss their convictions for conspiracy to rig a mining exploration tender.

A High Court majority has found self-represented law firms can recover costs for their solicitors’ work, but in dissent two judges said the ruling effectively restored an exception scrapped five years ago.

The High Court has dismissed an appeal of a finding that a successor trustee owes no fiduciary duty to a former trustee to preserve an entitlement to indemnification.

Wealth guru Dominque Grubisa wants the High Court to overturn a finding that she had actual knowledge her company's statements were misleading, saying the case raises unresolved questions about accessorial liability.

Radio manufacturer Hytera wants the High Court to hear its appeal of a finding that it misappropriated Motorola's source code in a case of "substantial industrial theft”.

A recent High Court decision that dealt a blow to builders and developers in NSW will usher in a return to a pre-2002 litigation regime, when plaintiffs only sued the parties with the deepest pockets, an expert has told Lawyerly. 

A creditor of defunct forestry giant Gunns Plantations has filed a High Court challenge after it didn't pay the company a $1.2 million judgment that confirmed the peak indebtedness rule does not apply in insolvency law.

The valuer general of Victoria has told the High Court that a property in Melbourne's CBD should be valued at $6.2 million rather than $2.9 million, despite a heritage constraint on development. 

Russian company UC Rusal wants the High Court to hear its appeal of an "extremely harsh" finding that Rio Tinto was entitled to refuse alumina deliveries due to export sanctions.

The Western Bulldogs, formerly the Footscray Football Club, has launched a High Court challenge to a $6 million award to a fan who was sexually abused by a club volunteer.