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Colin Biggers & Paisley appoints partner to lead property insurance team
Insurance 2025-02-12 2:55 pm By Sam Matthews

Law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley has appointed a former Lander & Rogers consultant to lead its property insurance team.

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Brunswick Heads estate developers can amend defence in activist case
Environment 2025-02-11 2:51 pm By Sam Matthews

The developers of a Brunswick Heads housing estate have the OK to raise a new defence to injunctions sought by an environmental group.

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Callide to pay $9M for Queensland power station explosion
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-02-06 4:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Power company Callide has been hit with a $9 million penalty for “very serious” contraventions of the National Electricity Rules that led to an explosion at a coal-fired power station.

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Former Star CFO reaches settlement with ASIC
ASIC 2025-02-05 11:17 pm By Sam Matthews

The former CFO of Star Entertainment has reached a settlement in ASIC’s case accusing ten executives of breaching their duties in relation to the casino operator’s lax money laundering compliance.

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Successor trustee owes no fiduciary duty to former trustee, High Court says
Appeals 2025-02-05 3:28 pm By Sam Matthews

The High Court has dismissed an appeal of a finding that a successor trustee owes no fiduciary duty to a former trustee to preserve an entitlement to indemnification.

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Crown sues Lendlease over combustible cladding at Metropol
Entertainment 2025-02-06 11:15 pm By Sam Matthews

Crown has sued Lendlease and a host of other companies that signed off on the use of combustible cladding on the façade of the Metropol in Southbank, which it says resulted in two years of expensive rectification work.

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NT says court has no jurisdiction to hear COVID quarantine class action
Class Actions 2025-02-04 3:43 pm By Sam Matthews

The Northern Territory government is fighting a false imprisonment and wrongful death class action by the family of an Indigenous woman who died at a COVID-19 quarantine facility.

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Associate of Graaf Group founder can’t block sale of $22M Potts Point property
Real Estate 2025-02-04 11:44 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected an “ambitious and novel” freezing order sought by a creditor and former associate of bankrupt Graaf Group founder Gennaro Autore over a $22 million boutique hotel in Potts Point.

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Armour takeover case against Baker McKenzie can’t boost damages to $135M
Corporate 2025-01-31 11:54 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected a new pleading that would have upped the damages to $135 million in a case by a shareholder of failed energy company Armour Group alleging law firm Baker McKenzie was knowingly involved in a plan to take control of the company for cheap.

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India wins foreign state immunity appeal in fight over $111.3M arbitral award
Arbitration 2025-01-31 10:32 pm By Sam Matthews

The government of India has overturned a finding that it couldn’t dodge a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies, with an appeals court finding it did not waive foreign state immunity in the case.  

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