The heirs of iron ore magnate Peter Wright have won a bid to haul their brother Julian to court to question him about the identity of the funder who backed his unsuccessful case against them in a dispute over their father’s estate.
The Albanaese government has announced it will ban foreign investors from buying established homes for two years and also take steps to crack down on land banking.
Lawyers will struggle to hold providers of legal artificial intelligence services liable for negligence but the situation may change as the technology becomes more sophisticated, experts have told Lawyerly.
The developer of a suite of Holiday Inn Express hotels has succeeded in its appeal of a ruling that laid bare privileged material connected to its lawyers’ bills.
Lendlease has resolved its challenge to a valuation for the site of its $3.1 billion luxury development One Circular Quay, located between the Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.
The Albanese government has passed a new law aimed at preventing a repeat of the Robodebt scandal, making it an offence for federal agency heads to impede an investigation by the Commonwealth watchdog.
Mineral Resources confirmed Thursday managing director Chris Ellison will be replaced following a disclosure scandal detailed late last year, but no new penalties will be imposed.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has charged three former directors of failed online grocery wholesaler IRExchange for allegedly violating the Corporations Act.
The High Court has overturned a controversial decision that put a judge on the hook for a man’s false imprisonment, finding that all judges are immune from civil suits for acts done in the performance of their judicial duties.
A second law firm has lodged class actions against Coles and Woolworths on the back of the consumer regulator’s claims that the supermarket giants’ discount campaigns were misleading.
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