Barristers

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost its bid to add a new claim to its case against builder Devine, with a judge saying the developer was attempting to tell a “fundamentally different story” to the existing case, weeks out from trial.

A judge has set aside a tribunal’s refusal of a developer’s application to build a retirement village on land owned by the Federal Golf Club in Canberra. 

The Full Federal Court has scrapped orders by the Fair Work Commission limiting the rights of workplace delegates in various awards, finding the commission acted outside of its power following changes to the Fair Work Act.

A court has agreed to hear the Parramatta Eels’ case against former player Zac Lomax on an expedited basis, as the club seeks to enforce a contractual term keeping him off the list of rival teams after an unsuccessful mediation with the Melbourne Storm.  

The declaration of Melbourne’s CBD as a location permitting random searches was “incompatible with human rights”, a judge found Friday, although she tossed a related constitutional challenge.

A judge has allowed a novel negligence claim in a class action over the NSW Liberal Party’s failure to lodge paperwork for local candidates, saying a High Court ruling that rejected a duty of care to protect against economic loss did not doom the claim. 

A court has granted gold milling company Golden Mile leave to redraft its statement of claim in a dispute against Lakewood Mining over Lakewood’s alleged conversion of fresh waste rock. 

An appeals court has handed BHP a win in a dispute with Aquila Steel over the boundary between their neighbouring mining tenements, rejecting Aquila’s “fanciful” argument about the construction of a 58-year-old document.

Zoetis has been ordered to pay Scidera’s costs of defending an unsuccessful summary dismissal application on a lump sum basis in a dispute over a bovine gene patent, with a judge rejecting its “premature” bid for a set-off. 

BHP and Rio Tinto have told a court that the claims of thousands of women who allegedly experienced workplace sexual harassment and discrimination should not be brought as class actions.