A tribunal has found a company that scrapes court databases broke privacy laws by failing to remove a litigant’s name after charges against her were dropped, saying the public nature of court lists doesn’t make republication a “free for all”.
Baker McKenzie has poached a banking and finance partner from Norton Rose Fulbright.
A judge has said ASIC should have known that its case against four TerraCom directors over statements made to investors had no prospects of success, calling one of its submissions “unworthy of the corporations regulator”.
Customers affected by a cyberattack on a Qantas call centre that held the records of six million people may be able to bring a class action against the airline, an expert has said.
A personal injury law firm is investigating a potential class action against childcare centre operators that employed an alleged sex offender who has been charged with over 70 offences.
The Victorian Bar has hit back at media reporting around the management of commercial litigation by Australian courts which singled out judges of the Supreme Court, saying “statistics never tell the whole story”.
A judge hearing a dispute over a lot in Victoria’s Merrifield Business Park has found that the Competition and Consumer Act’s bar on contracts that substantially lessen competition does not apply to a market in land.
HWL Ebsworth has acquired Adelaide law firm Botten Levinson Lawyers, boosting the firm’s environment and development law offering in the region.
Troubled casino operator Star Entertainment says it will have to repay $36.5 million to its Queen’s Wharf partners if an agreement on a plan to buy out its stake in the Brisbane entertainment project is not reached by the end of the month.
A liquidator has opened his case over the alleged misuse of funds by now defunct Dyldam Developments, as the court hears of “oddities” in financial records and the spaghetti-like structure of 157 interrelated entities.
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