A GE unit has been hit with a $400,000 penalty after admitting it failed to comply with greenhouse gas reporting obligations for four years.
A former Holden dealer has lost a $9 million suit alleging General Motors misleadingly represented that it was “100% committed” to the line a few years before it decided to discontinue the brand.
A judge has ordered the administrator for two class actions over PFAS contamination that settled for $153 million to pay the leftover funds to group members rather than to charities, saying it was not appropriate “to go around making donations”.
A Dubai-based investor is seeking to vary “punitive” freezing orders won by a brokerage firm that claims he failed to repay a $10.7 million (US$7.2 million) debt over a “highly unusual” airport investment proposal.
The University of NSW has been hit with a $211,200 penalty after admitting to “systemic” underpayments of casual staff at its business school.
Monarch Building Solutions has lost its bid to strike out waterproofing contractor PJG Frawley Construction’s claim for payment for work allegedly completed on a community-led project to replace buildings destroyed in bushfires in Cobargo.
Alinta Energy has won an appeal against a mining warden’s decision to refuse an extension to lodge objections against Pilbara Energy’s licence application for a renewable energy project.
A judge has ordered the lead applicant in a failed class action against Queensland utilities Stanwell and CS Energy, which was slated to be worth $1 billion, to pay $32.4 million in costs.
The developer of a luxury apartment complex in Sydney’s CBD has fended off a stay application in a spat with the owners corporation, with a judge finding that it was not precluded from resolving their dispute through the courts.
A judge has removed a liquidator from the winding up of a Victorian cabinetry business, finding he failed to act honestly by settling unfair preference claims with tax agencies without disclosing key information.