A court has approved a $64 million settlement in a consumer class action against the NAB units MLC Trustees and NULIS Nominees, with 69 per cent of the settlement sum to go to group members.
The High Court has rejected a special leave application by wealth guru Dominque Grubisa seeking to overturn a finding that she had actual knowledge that statements made by her company DG Institute to students who enrolled in her courses were misleading.
An injured construction worker has failed in his plea to the High Court to weigh in on his case, which alleged a principal contractor owed a duty of care to him as a sub-contractor’s employee.
Aviation company Corporate Air Charter is taking its fight over pilot pay up to the High Court, after twice losing its argument that stand-by duty should not be remunerated.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on whether issue and Anshun estoppel apply to SOP Act claims, with a South Australian wind farm seeking to overturn a ruling ordering it to make a $21 million progress payment to joint venture partners GE Renewable Energy and Elecnor.
Resolving a split between courts, the High Court has confirmed that judges have power to make soft class closure orders, which require class action members to register before mediation to participate in any resulting settlement.
Mayfield Development’s competition case against NSW Ports over agreements to privatise two ports has made it to the High Court, with the developer pressing its argument that derivative Crown immunity did not apply to the port authority.
DLA Piper has hired a former Hogan Lovells counsel to serve as a partner in its Sydney based technology practice. Technology and real estate lawyer Mark Bennett joins the firm from Hogan Lovells, where he served as special counsel. The third partner appointed to the firm in Australia since the new year, Bennett has over…
The Federal Court is in no rush to issue guidelines on the use of AI in court proceedings, as other courts have done, despite its wide adoption in the legal profession and uses that have already raised judges’ hackles.
The High Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a doctor who says the law of unjust enrichment entitles him to over $1.4 million in interest on a $900,000 sum that his lawyers repaid to him amid a fight about his legal fees.