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Clifford Chance has snagged an M&A partner from Herbert Smith Freehills to join its growing corporate practice.

Deloitte may seek confidentiality orders over the amount it agreed to pay to settle a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie.

Deloitte has settled a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie, a case which dragged on for six years as the accounting firm unsuccessfully fought to shield its audit reports.

Dairy processor Lactalis Australia has been hit with a $950,000 penalty in the first proceedings against a company for breaches of the Dairy Code.

Clifford Chance has added former Clayton Utz competition and consumer law partner Elizabeth Richmond to the firm's global antitrust team in Sydney.

Trial in a protracted class action against Deloitte over the collapse of construction group Hastie has been abandoned, signalling a settlement is in the works.

A coalition of global law firms have joined together to launch an association to advise businesses on adopting better human rights practices.

A judge has found that dairy processor Lactalis Australia breached a mandatory industry code between farmers and processors requiring it to publish milk supply contracts on its website.

Epic Games has argued in favour of steaming ahead with a trial in its competition case against Apple while its parallel case against Google remains in the embryonic stage, but the tech giants say Google's litigation should catch up in the hopes that the court can hear a joint trial or hold contemporaneous hearings.

Global firm Clifford Chance has lured a Corrs Chambers Westgarth litigation partner to meet the increased demand for projects expertise stemming from pandemic-related construction disputes.