Food and beverage manufacturer Freedom Foods will call its CEO and ex-group chairman to the stand in a case filed by the firm’s former group general counsel, who has dropped her lawyer and is now self-represented.
A suspended Sydney lawyer, who was struck off the roll of practioners for over charging an elderly client with dementia, has been ordered to return more than $400,000 in unauthorised wages, withheld client fees, Bartercard points and “secret profit” to the estate of his former partner.
A friend of Christian Porter’s accuser has lodged complaints with the NSW legal watchdog against silk Sue Chrysanthou and Porter’s solicitor, Rebekah Giles, for their conduct in representing the former Attorney-General in his defamation case against the ABC.
Noting that the legal costs of a dispute over whether she could represent federal minister Christian Porter in his defamation case were “substantial”, Sue Chrysanthou SC has asked to see invoices before she agrees to a lump sum bill of $550,000.
A barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner should have been found to have engaged in professional misconduct, the Council of the NSW Bar Association has told an appeals court.
A judge has approved a $50 million settlement in a shareholder class action against failed training company Vocation and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, but questioned whether the $10.9 million commission and $12.75 million legal bill could have been “materially lower” had the case been run by one funder and firm instead of two.
A Melbourne law firm has triumphed in a lawsuit by a former client that accused it of breaching its fiduciary duty in “hard-fought” litigation over a $24.5 million East Melbourne development.
The Council of the NSW Bar Association has filed an appeal after a tribunal found that a Sydney barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner did not commit sexual harassment but was engaging her in “horseplay”.
A NSW barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner has been reprimanded for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
Leading defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou is facing possible disciplinary action arising from her representation of Liberal minister Christian Porter in a now-settled defamation case against the ABC.