The widow of mining executive Ken Talbot has lost a case alleging law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal mishandled her late husband’s estate after a judge found she had a “stated intention to destroy” the estate lawyer.
A former McDonald’s franchisee has lost his challenge to a privilege claim by the fast food giant in his lawsuit alleging he was wrongly dropped after questioning his neighbour’s Indigenous identity in a 2019 viral video recording an altercation over an Aboriginal flag.
A class action against a Victorian aged care home over alleged major failures during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has asked the facility to hand over insurance information and evidence of its financial position.
Wilsons Advisory and Stockbroking has paid a $548,328 penalty after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission found its reported Trade With Price Improvement products did not offer price improvement.
A business owned by billionaire and soccer team owner Paul Lederer unfairly dismissed a flight attendant who worked on his private jet because she refused to change hotels during a stopover, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The applicant in a Shine Lawyers-run class action against Boston Scientific over alleged defective pelvic mesh wants to switch legal representation, taking her business to Shine’s former class actions head, who recently parted ways with the firm to launch her own boutique.
Collapsed engineering firm Forge Group has defeated an appeal seeking to block its liquidators from bringing a case against engineering company Clough Limited for alleged insider trading during the 2013 sale of a $187 million stake in the company.
A judge has approved a $1 million settlement in a shareholder class action against failed tech start-up GetSwift that leaves the law firm running the matter taking a “massive haircut” and the funder $5.5 million out of pocket.
A judge has found a law firm’s estimated fees for representing the Commonwealth in a class action over the use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam on military bases are excessive, noting the government has already forked over $12 million in defence costs.
King & Wood Mallesons has welcomed the return of employment law expert Annamarie Rooding, who left the firm to serve as top inhouse lawyer with gaming giant Tabcorp.