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Creditors of LGL Commodities might have a right of action against solicitors for the company's liquidators for failing to comply with court orders and omitting evidence in a case against a former director, a judge has ruled.
A group of car dealers has hit a unit of car giant General Motors with a class action for allegedly breaching its contract by retiring the Holden brand in Australia last year.
News Corp and journalist Annette Sharp will have to pay the legal costs of Sydney lawyer Christopher Murphy who won a $110,000 judgment in his defamation case against the publisher, despite the lawyer rejecting an $120,000 offer to settle the case.
Allens' response to a complaint of sexual harassment in the firm's Brisbane office five years ago may have breached the federal Work Health and Safety Act, a new report has suggested.
Sexual harassment is alarmingly common throughout the legal profession in South Australia, according to a new report that details an assault by a former judge and harassing texts from a magistrate who told a lawyer while presiding over a case that he imagined her "kneeling between his legs at the bench".
The half-brother and manager of NBA star Ben Simmons has filed defamation proceedings against his half-sister over a barrage of tweets accusing him of sexually molesting her when she was a child.
A review of sexual harassment in Victorian courts sparked by the findings of an investigation into former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon has found a culture that can "normalise or ignore" bad behaviour by judges and others, with more than two dozen court staff reporting they had experienced sexual harassment, many on numerous occasions.
High profile criminal lawyer Christopher Murphy has been awarded a $110,000 judgment in his defamation case over a "gossipy and intrusive" Daily Telegraph article which a judge found had damaged the lawyer's professional reputation.
The founder of beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has been slapped with an order banning him from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.
The lawyer who filed a class action against the state of Victoria on behalf of residents in public housing towers who were locked down during the state's second COVID-19 wave has had her licence suspended, raising questions about the fate of the class action.