An employment solicitor representing a sacked Jetstar pilot must pay the airline’s legal costs in defending an appeal application “that ought never to have been made”, an appeals court has found.
A judge has criticised agricultural giant Monsanto for its “highly unsatisfactory” conduct in ignoring court orders in a class action over its allegedly cancer-causing Roundup pesticides.
A mid-trial settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors and officers for allegedly engaging in insolvent trading.
K&L Gates has bolstered its Australian intellectual property team by nabbing a leading IP lawyer and partner from rival Herbert Smith Freehills.
The judge overseeing the first ever bid for a group costs order in a class action that will give the plaintiff’s law firm a percentage cut of the proceeds has urged the firm to rethink characterising its own solicitor as an expert.
A Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer and former Deutsche Bank general counsel who previously led ASIC’s litigation and enforcement team has been appointed to replace the corporate regulator’s outgoing chair James Shipton.
A judge has found he has power to order that opt out notices be sent to a limited number of Boral shareholders eligible to join two class actions that faced off last month in a class action beauty parade.
Building products supplier Wagners has been awarded $4.8 million from Boral after Wagners successfully challenged a ruling in a high-stakes cement supply dispute with the construction material giant.
A judge has temporarily barred Qantas from moving forward with its plans to terminate a long haul pilot who reached the mandatory retirement age of 65, saying the pilot had established that he may have an age discrimination claim against the airline.
The judge who vowed last year to move a criminal cartel case over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement to trial “before we all retire” will soon weigh the ACCC’s claim for privilege over statements from JPMorgan witnesses it has been accused of pressuring during its investigation, two months after a different judge heard a still unresolved privilege fight in the long-running case.