MinterEllison and Crown Resort’s internal lawyers were partially at fault for misconduct unearthed in a damning Royal Commission report into the casino operator because they failed to ask whether certain actions were moral as well as legal, the commissioner has found.
A class action has been filed alleging the Morrison government has a novel duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from the devastating effects of climate change.
BlueScope Steel general manager Jason Ellis was not an honest witness and did not express genuine regret when he apologised for obstructing an ACCC investigation, a court hearing the regulator’s price-fixing case was told Tuesday.
Eastern Health and the Royal Women’s Hospital have become the latest hospital operators to be stung with a class action alleging they failed to pay junior doctors for unrostered work hours.
Infrastructure developers Lendlease and Acciona are suing each other for tens of millions of dollars over alleged losses stemming from Acciona’s $160 million acquisition of Lendlease’s engineering business, which saw it take over the Gawler rail project in South Australia.
Australia’s largest onshore oil producer, Beach Energy, is facing a second shareholder class action investigation into whether it misled the market with its projected earnings from oil reserves on the Western Flank in South Australia.
A Canberra property developer that misled investors about GST on its apartments does not have to pay compensation to the lead applicant in a class action against it, an appeal court has found.
A judge overseeing a class action against the Australian arm of Thai state owned oil giant PTT has rejected attempts to limit the claimed damages from one of Australia’s largest oil spills, saying the disaster was “widespread” across Indonesian islands in the Timor Sea.
Asset manager Aurora Funds has won its bid to toss a demand by law firm Piper Alderman for $119,335 in allegedly unpaid legal fees, with a judge finding the terms of a settlement deed between the parties may operate as a “penalty” for defaulting on payments.
Embattled Sydney accountant Vanda Gould has lost his defamation case against the Commissioner of Taxation, with a court finding Chris Jordan’s defamatory comments constituted a “robust”, but proportional, counter-attack to Gould’s public disparagement of the Australian Tax Office.