The Supreme Court of New South Wales has ordered a businessman and his wife to pay about $46 million to financial services firm Merricks Capital after they defaulted on a property development loan they guaranteed.

ASIC alleges that Super Retail Group's former chief executive misled its directors by dismissing allegations of a relationship with its then-HR boss as baseless, according to Federal Court of Australia documen... (more story)

KPMG has agreed to stop bidding for Victorian government contracts until September, days after the audit firm said new CEO John Sams fired a partner following new evidence by law firms Allens into the whistleb... (more story)

AI could make legal services more accessible to people deterred by cost and complexity, but pricing models that reward time spent must change, the chief executive of Maurice Backburn told Law360 ahead of a par... (more story)

Victorian Court of Appeal President Rowena Orr, who earned the nickname "Shock and Orr" during the banking royal commission, has pledged to make the court's work more accessible and understandable to the publi... (more story)

Visy Industries and 20 other companies within billionaire businessman Anthony Pratt's family-owned packaging and recycling group have paid more than $4.1 million in infringement notices for allegedly failing t... (more story)

Liquidators for failed video startup Big Un have appealed a Federal Court ruling throwing out a $27.2 million bid to recoup losses from financiers First Class Capital.

ASIC is probing whether data centre operator Firmus may have misled investors ahead of its collapsed initial public offering but has not begun a formal investigation, ASIC's director of enforcement and complia... (more story)

Fortescue announced it has fired a senior executive after an independent investigation by law firm MinterEllison found evidence of misconduct, adding there is no place for sexual harassmentand bullying at the iron ore giant. 

Universal Music has lost a bid to secure $150,000 in costs security in a case brought by songwriter and musician Johan Loewenthal seeking the termination of his music deal over unpaid royalties in the Supreme ... (more story)

A Federal Court judge dismissed a patent infringement claim on Tuesday brought by orthopedic device maker OrthAlign against Navbit, finding that its rival's Sprint hip alignment device did not infringe the patent.

A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has found barrister Philip Bates in civil contempt for failing for months to hand over business documents during a dispute with his former chambers over $112,000 in allege... (more story)

The Victorian Government plans to cap barrister fees across the state's public sector departments and agencies, which Victorian Bar president Fiona Ryan SC says "will unfairly and disproportionately affect women barristers."

Sequoia Financial Group's sale of its legally-embroiled subsidiary Interprac is being probed by the corporate regulator who has asked for more information about its attempt to cancel a guarantee of Interprac's... (more story)

Law firm Maddocks has appointed Colin Biggers & Paisley partner Bob Miljevic as partner of its real estate practice group in Sydney, the law firm announced on Monday as it focuses on servicing high volume deve... (more story)

The Federal Court ruled Monday that ASIC and Gemi Asset Management must bear their own costs after the regulator withdrew an information notice challenged by the firm, rejecting the company's argument that the... (more story)