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A prefab home builder has filed an application with the High Court after it was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.
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Civil construction firm United Crib Blocks Construction has won a fight over a notice to produce in a case alleging a former employee has misused the company's confidential information.
Lander & Rogers has recruited a contracting specialist from Clayton Utz for the law firm's corporate practice in Canberra.
Billabong founder Gordon Merchant has won the ear of the High Court in his fight over what the ATO claims was a "wash sale" of his 10 million shares in the retailer, but the justices have also agreed to hear the tax office's appeal.
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Owners of apartments in Sydney's One Central Park, who are embroiled in disputes with developer Frasers over defective planter boxes on the building's façade, can't get a court declaration to impact rectification works.
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Developer CIP Group must fork over another $1.17 million in further security for costs in a derivative case against entities associated with a 600-lot development in Brisbane.
Children's entertainment group The Wiggles has reached a settlement resolving a case by its former CEO, who claimed he was axed after complaints about co-founder and Blue Wiggle Anthony Field.
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The High Court has rejected a special leave application by the owners of land acquired to build a Melbourne freeway that sought to overturn an "erroneous" appeals court decision which left them with $2 million for land worth over $30 million.
‘Argumentative and amorphous’: Startup attacks Fortescue’s call for seized docs in trade secrets row
Green iron startup Element Zero is challenging a bid by Fortescue for access to nine million seized documents in their trade secrets spat, saying its rival has not met the test for proving inadequate discovery of material.
Another company is being pulled into a class action over a fatal bus crash in NSW's Hunter Valley, with infrastructure consulting firm AECOM planning a cross-claim against engineering firm GHD Australia.