Judgment

A judge has slammed NAB for failing to comply with court orders in a negligence case against the bank, calling its actions "discourteous and unacceptable".

A judge has tossed a nuisance claim by the Perth Day Hospital against its neighbour Fitness Cartel, finding its use of the property for "hypersensitive" surgery and medical procedures was not an 'ordinary use' protected by nuisance law.

A former director of collapsed Melbourne-based over-the-counter derivatives broker Berndale Capital Securities will serve 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to misusing company funds, misconduct that ASIC called "egregious".

AsheMorgan principal Michael Rothner has defeated a suit by a member of the Waterhouse horseracing dynasty over the $26 million sale of a Rose Bay mansion, with a judge finding Rothner did not breach the agreement by authorising the removal of trees on a neighbouring property to improve his harbour views. 

Fitout company Reward Group has lost its challenge to a payment claim adjudication by a subcontractor for refurbishment work on Sydney's luxury Sofitel Wentworth Hotel.

US real estate firm Savills has failed to summarily dismiss a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, which a judge said if true "indicated a culture of discriminatory sexist behaviour of a serious kind".

A judge has given the nod to an amendment in a class action over Victoria's COVID-era hotel quarantine program that will exclude non-retail and hospitality businesses, but he won't make the order operate retrospectively.

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

Alliance Living has failed on appeal of a security for costs order in a dispute with a subcontractor on a project to restore Sydney's Gaden House, with NSW's top court saying the builder's failure to pay a judgment debt was relevant.

US real estate firm Savills has failed to summarily dismiss a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, which a judge said if true "indicated a culture of discriminatory sexist behaviour of a serious kind".