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Active Super ordered to pay $10.5M penalty for greenwashing
Greenwashing 2025-03-18 12:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The trustee for Active Super has been ordered to pay a $10.5 million penalty for misleading members about its investments in gambling, oil tar sands and Russian companies.

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$3.7M error in Main Beach complex spat shows failure to consider evidence: court
Construction 2025-03-19 2:58 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has found a $3.7 million error by an adjudicator in a dispute over a $43 million payment claim for work on an apartment complex in Queensland’s Main Beach showed a failure to properly consider the evidence and submissions.

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Sydney MP Alex Greenwich denies windfall in costs fight with Mark Latham
Defamation 2025-03-18 4:20 pm By Andy Sidler

Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich rejects claims he will receive a windfall if awarded costs in his successful defamation case against former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham.

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Ex-Star GC tells court she had no independent reporting obligation to board
Trials 2025-03-17 11:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

During trial on Monday, ASIC also accused Star’s former top lawyer of giving false evidence about alleged cash for chip transactions in junket operator Suncity’s VIP room.

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Court rejects developer Hunt’s payment claim on $25M Sydney industrial project
Construction 2025-03-18 11:18 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has rejected developer Hunt Collaborative’s claim for $232,000 for works performed before real estate investor RWC Brookvale Investments switched builders on a $25.75 million corporate industrial project. Bettar Holdings, trading as Hunt Collaborative, sought to recover the sum under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act for works completed on the…

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Judge shoots down Crown Group director’s objection to $500,000 payments
Construction 2025-03-18 11:14 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has found the liquidators for collapsed developer Crown Group would be justified in making $500,000 in payments to related companies Quay Group and Westport, over objections from a director that he was not consulted on a solicitor’s retainer.

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Mitsubishi wins bid to shield fuel consumption probe from class action
Class Actions 2025-03-17 11:40 am By Sam Matthews

A judge has accepted Mitsubishi’s argument that an investigation into the fuel consumption of its Triton cars is protected by litigation privilege and should not be handed over to a class action.

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High Court must solve honest concurrent user ‘conundrum’, Cantarella says in ‘Oro’ appeal
Appeals 2025-03-17 5:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Vittoria Cantarella has taken the fight to revive its ‘Oro’ trade marks to the High Court, arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the marks, which were first used by another coffee maker.

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Barrister’s counsel to be paid amid fight with solicitor in cavoodle case
Defamation 2025-03-17 11:54 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Counsel who appeared for barrister Gina Edwards during her successful defamation trial against Nine will be paid over $668,000 amid a fight with her solicitors over fees.

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra slams pianist’s ‘fundamentally misconceived’ case
Employment 2025-03-17 11:51 pm By Andy Sidler

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has told a court that Jayson Gillham’s suit over a recital that was scuppered over critical Gaza comments should be tossed because the pianist was not an employee.

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