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A judge has denied a bid by accounting firm Pitcher Partners to transfer a $127 million lawsuit brought by the Twigg family, saying he was best placed to hear "serious allegations" the firm helped race car driver Max Twigg give a false understanding of his company’s assets.
A judge has signed off on a $44.5 million settlement of a shareholder class action against Woolworths, which includes a $4.73 million funding commission, but the amount of fees to be paid to the law firm running the case remains to be decided.
No secret lawyers brought on for privilege ‘shield’, says judge in Pacific National crash doc stoush
A judge has ordered Pacific National to hand over safety management system documents in a privilege fight over a deadly 2019 train crash, observing large organisations often bring on lawyers for a privilege "shield".
A judge has blessed Ernst & Young’s settlement with shareholders in a class action alleging the firm, along with Pitcher Partners, approved an overly rosy year-end financial report related to Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK business Quindell.
A judge has cautioned senior barrister Sue Chrysanthou over her colourful description of a 60 Minutes episode at the heart of Euro Pacific Bank boss Peter Schiff’s defamation case against Nine, urging the silk to "be careful".
Mercedes can't access communications between Australia's peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
Samsung Bioepis Australia has sued fellow biotechnology company Fresenius Kabi over a biosimilar of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, saying the invention ‘does not achieve the promise’ of a better formulation using fewer ingredients.
Canada-based software company Dye & Durham has offered to divest its Australian business to win the ACCC's blessing for its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of technology services provider Link Group.
Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker's decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
A judge has given a “judicial harrumph” to Sydney developer FKP Commercial Developments and Irish insurer Zurich Insurance in a dispute over coverage for an apartment defects suit, saying it was not for the court to “trawl” through an insurance policy to work out its meaning.