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A Sydney-based law firm has been ordered to pay $1.4 million in damages for failing to properly advise a client of his rights under a partnership agreement after he suffered several strokes.
Lawyers want virtual hearings to stay in a post-COVID world
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Restrictions to combat COVID-19 that forced Australia’s courts to go virtual have had unforseen benefits, and Australia’s top law firms say they don’t want online hearings to be scrapped when social distancing measures are eased.
Commonwealth Bank faces class action over ‘junk’ insurance
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has become the latest Big Four bank to be hit with a class action over the sales of allegedly worthless insurance products.
Domino’s looks to strike out ‘rolled up, confusing’ underpayments class action
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Domino’s is seeking to strike out portions of the “rolled up, confusing pleading” in a class action over alleged worker underpayments, saying the case cannot be brought under the consumer law.
ASIC can’t avoid trial in defamation lawsuit by Queensland mortgage firm
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will have to face trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by a Queensland building and mortgage company over two media releases the corporate regulator issued in 2018 and 2019, after defeating a separate $10 million defamation case last year.
‘A significant inequality of arms’: Funding led to better outcome in PFAS class action, judge says
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The judge overseeing three class actions against the Commonwealth over its use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam, which have settled for $212.5 million, said backing by a litigation funder led to a better outcome for group members, who would otherwise have been in the disadvantaged position of “supplicants requesting compensation”.
‘New marketing opportunity’: Judge sees injunction’s silver lining in In-N-Out trade mark dispute
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A Sydney burger chain that was ordered to change its name after losing a trade mark lawsuit by popular American burger franchise In-N-Out has lost its request to stay the ruling, with a judge finding the company had “greatly exaggerated” the costs of the name switch, which she called “a new marketing opportunity”.
Google must hand over ID of bad reviewer to gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson
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Google has been ordered to hand over details of an online reviewer’s identity to gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson so she can pursue a potential defamation and misleading and deceptive conduct case against the reviewer, which she alleges is a rival law firm.
Victoria Beckham drops challenge to ‘VB’ trade marks
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Victoria Beckham has dropped a lawsuit seeking to block Sydney-based skincare company VB Skinlab from registering two VB trade marks, which the fashion designer and former Spice Girl claimed sought to trade off the reputation of her VB marks.
Top barrister retained interest in Mark Elliott’s funding co. after wife sold shares, court told
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Court documents sought to be kept confidential in a case alleging professional misconduct against barrister Norman O’Bryan SC in his role as counsel for a class action over the collapse of Banksia Securities accuse the top silk of continuing to have an interest in the funder that bankrolled the proceedings after his wife was said to have sold her shares.