Barristers

Builder Devakon has been ordered to pay $120,000 to remedy defects in an apartment development in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern East, dodging the owners’ bid for damages of almost $1 million.

The builder of the Duke apartment complex in the inner city Melbourne suburb of Collingwood wants a court to block the property developer from accessing a bank guarantee as their dispute over the project continues.

Santos has failed to convince a judge that it should not provide documents relied on by NOPSEMA to approve the company’s environmental plan for its Reindeer gas field in judicial review proceedings.

Two minority shareholders in Argentina’s state-controlled oil company have won a dispute over service in their case seeking to enforce a $24.3 billion judgment awarded in a US court. 

A class action alleging negligent management by the Murray Darling Basin Authority can amend their case four weeks into trial, with a judge finding the late application was not the result of a “deliberate forensic decision”.

Acciona is targeting engineers SMEC and Jacobs Group in cross-claims after being joined to a class action over a deadly bus accident in NSW’s Hunter Valley, as two more parties in the proceeding flag further cross-claims.

Four doctors named in a class action over cosmetic surgeries performed at Daniel Lanzer’s clinic in Sydney can't dodge claims they are liable as accessories for alleged misleading social media ads. 

Maurice Blackburn has proposed expanding the group definition in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over allegedly defective anti-lock braking systems after winning a carriage fight against a proceeding that included additional recalls in its group membership. 

Encrypted messaging app Telegram has won its bid to delay the hearing of its challenge to a $1 million fine from the eSafety Commissioner, after complaining about a "document dump" from the regulator. 

A judge has ordered ANZ to explain itself after hearing the director of a Gold Coast property developer under investigation withdrew $112,000 from a bank account subject to freezing orders.