The builder of an allegedly defective Haymarket apartment building has lost an appeal of a decision which found that separate breaches of statutory building warranties do not create individual causes of action.
A judge has approved a $50.45 million settlement in a class action by family members and deceased estates of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations. He has also approved a 13 per cent funding commission by way of a common fund order, saying debates about CFOs had become “lost in the label”.
The former dean of art school LCI Melbourne is seeking over $860,000 in compensation in a case alleging she was unfairly sacked via Instagram direct message because she took paid annual leave during “the most important term of the year”.
A judge has granted a discovery bid by two of Gina Rinehart’s children as a long-running fight over ownership of a valuable mining tenement nears trial, and has rejected her company’s argument that they were solely responsible for dragging out a dispute over documents.
A court has heard that a director at office leasing company Cushman & Wakefield who accepted a job with a competitor could lose a $1.3 million sign-on bonus if the case by her former employer is not promptly resolved.
Pharmaceutical giant Bayer cannot write off debilitating chronic pain and bleeding which patients allegedly experienced after being implanted with Essure contraceptives as “common women’s symptoms”, a court has heard in the first day of trial in a long-running class action.
A leading construction and commercial law silk in Sydney has been subject to a reprimand by the NSW legal services commissioner for alleged sexual harassment and workplace bullying.
Boutique law firm Barry Nilsson has snagged a Norton Rose Fulbright disputes partner who specialises in healthcare product liability class actions and his five-member team to join its Sydney office.
Prosecutors have dropped its fraud case against the former chief financial officer of a unit of collapsed Gold Coast finance company Octaviar Investments, citing his poor health.
Transport for NSW has refused to hand over transactional documents related to its $16 billion Westconnex project in a class action over the alleged fraudulent acquisition of land to construct the tunnel in inner western Sydney.