A personal service from experienced lawyers who quickly come to grips with the nuances of your dispute, to deliver tactical and definitive advice that is in accordance with your risk profile and commercial objectives.
We are highly skilled in providing practical yet strategic advice to clients on how to achieve effective and swift solutions to disputes, often avoiding substantial costs associated with court proceedings.
By the same token, with AXM Law, you can be assured that you are retaining not only the finest legal minds, but battle-hardened litigators who thrive and excel in winning amidst the cut and thrust of difficult litigation and contentious disputes.
AXM Law's founder, Alex Moriarty, is particularly known for his strategic approach to litigation, having won many legal test cases in his career. For example, in 2017, he led one of Queensland's largest ever class actions, for 43,000 victims of the Pearls Ponzi scheme, which he began by obtaining urgent injunctions freezing the $130 million sale of the Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast, previously bought with victims' funds, just one week prior to settlement and all funds being moved offshore.
Our strengths include all commercial and property litigation in the Supreme, District and Magistrates Courts, shareholder disputes, defamation, wills and estates, fraud, debt recovery and plaintiff insurance litigation. We also act in adminstrative law matters especially in professional disciplinary proceedings by AHPRA and other regulators.
Alex Moriarty has also acted in some of the most sensitive and high profile Crime and Corruption Commission investigations, and for clients the subject of ASIC and/or ACCC enforcement activities and defending criminal proceedings for corporate law offences.
Case Study
AXM Law represents former CSIRO scientist, Dr Patrick Glynn, world-leading inventor and renewable energy scientist, and 2018's world winner of the Kanthal Award for renewable energy science breakthroughs.
Alex previously acted for Dr Glynn in Supreme Court of South Australia proceedings brought against him by a competitor company in relation to disputed international patents and prototypes for thermal batteries, which are an industrial scale replacement for lithium-ion batteries.
Alex’s conduct of the case showcases Alex’s strengths as a litigator for three reasons.
Firstly, the case began as an urgent injunction application against Dr Glynn, brought by Adelaide start-up tech. company, Climate Change Technologies, to restrain the alleged misuse (vigorously denied by Dr Glynn) of its intellectual property and trade secrets. Whereas Climate Change Technologies had two months to prepare its case for urgent injunctions, Dr Glynn and his legal team had only 2 days to prepare before the first urgent hearing, and one week to prepare for the second hearing. Despite these time demands, Dr Glynn was able to mount a detailed and meticulous defence to the injunctions.
Secondly, the case concerned disputed, and highly commercially-valuable, international patent applications (all invented by Dr Glynn) lodged in the U.S.A, Australia and India for thermal batteries. Just as thermal battery technology is completely novel, so were the complexities of local and international intellectual property and corporations law used by Dr Glynn’s legal team to mount his defence.
Thirdly, the case highlights Alex’s commitment to his clients to deliver commercially astute outcomes, while minimising as far as possible time and money spent in the Court room. The case never proceeded to a trial but was settled after extensive negotiations in a way that successfully resolved the parties’ differences, and, most importantly, left Dr Glynn free to pursue valuable commercial opportunities for the ongoing development of his thermal battery technology.
Renewable Energy Scientist, Winner of the 2018 Kanthal Award
AXM Law's Alex Moriarty greatly assisted me in difficult and complex Supreme Court litigation involving a shareholder dispute and highly commercially valuable contested patents to my inventions.
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