White & Case has expanded its competition practice in Australia with the recruitment of a former Allen & Overy lawyer to the firm’s Sydney office.
A judge has raised concerns with Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon for their slow progress in a consolidated shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates, one year after scolding the firms for their delay in filing evidence.
The federal government will face a class action on behalf of disabled individuals age 65 and over who have been excluded from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The consumer regulator has taken a page from ASIC, warning it will take action against businesses that make unsupported environmental or sustainability claims.
Opal Tower structural engineer WSP has been ordered to produce all professional indemnity policies covering its work on the defective building in a lawsuit against insurers for builder Icon, despite arguing for the “commercial sensitivity” of the information.
Two receivers for unlicensed investment scheme A One Multi Services have lost their bid to have 85 per cent of their future remuneration paid out immediately, with a judge agreeing with the corporate regulator that the receivers should not have “what are in effect trust funds”.
IP firm Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys has dropped a lawsuit accusing two of its former lawyers who left to form a competing boutique of violating non-compete clauses in their employment contracts.
A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner wants the Full Court to decide whether whistleblower protections apply retrospectively in a $13 million suit alleging he was sacked for complaining about the tax avoidance strategy of construction giant Lendlease.
A judge has ordered that part of a decision by the Australian Taxation Office over three alleged schemes by Liberty Financial to obtain tax benefits be set aside, rejecting arguments that the corporate group’s operations were “artificial or contrived”.
A judge has signed off on a $1.55 million settlement to resolve two underpayments class actions against supermarket chain Romeo’s, but has reduced the pay out to the law firm running the cases by 25 per cent, saying the firm had “no legal entitlement” to the fees.