Carpet supplier Godfrey Hirst wants more discovery to back up its claims that a competitor’s distressed business bounced back after its former general counsel — allegedly aided in part by Piper Alderman — jumped ship along with a senior manager, taking “thousands” of documents.
OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix ‘GPT’.
A lawsuit against Transgrid by the winning bidder for a contract to build a substation for the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub, which sought $11 million in extra costs and damages for alleged union disruptions, has been settled.
A judge has allowed Charter Hall to respond to developer Pro-Invest’s expert evidence in a case claiming $100 million in damages for the lost opportunity to build a 26-storey hotel in the Sydney CBD.
Star Entertainment will be on the hook for $41 million to its Queen’s Wharf partners after an agreement to sell its stake in the Brisbane entertainment venture fell through.
An appeals court has declined to revive a negligence case against a solicitor accused by a former client of failing to advise him on key clauses in a rescinded $1.7 million sale contract.
Construction of an underwater cable connecting Tasmania’s hydroelectricity to the mainland — slated to pump $3.9 billion into the economy — has secured final approval.
Mayne Pharma has said it may seek to shut out US drug maker Cosette’s expert evidence in proceedings over the purported termination of their $672 million merger.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.
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