Judgment

A judge has dismissed a case brought by a sand importer against the Port Authority of NSW seeking to recoup alleged lost profits and reliance damages falling from a lease agreement for a multi-user facility in the Sydney harbour. 

Cor Cordis has lost its bid to strike out claims by the former chair of the insolvency firm that it "confected" reductions in work in progress to avoid paying his full retirement entitlements.

The Full Federal Court has shot down billionaire Clive Palmer's bid to revive misconduct claims against former ASIC chair James Shipton, calling his case "little more than houses of cards".

An appeals court has ordered Colliers to pay a former director more than $110,000 for serving as agent on a lease at the Westfield in Sydney's CBD, which he did not receive after he left the firm in 2016.

A class action against cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer, his clinic and a number of his colleagues has won court approval to amend its case two weeks out from trial.

The Retirement Villages Act was unfit for the purpose of protecting both former residents at a Paterson Lakes retirement village and new apartment owners, who appeared to be victims of an "exploitative" scheme by former managers and operators, a court has found.

A judge has ordered advice platform JustAnswer to pay $10 million in the consumer regulator's case over misleading claims about its subscription service.

A judge has discharged the mortgages and caveats developer Oliver Hume holds over a residential subdivision project in Onkaparinga Heights in favour of a renegotiated arrangement, allowing the landowner to deal with property amid an ongoing court dispute. 

An illegal online poker company, its director and a promoter of its service have been hit with a combined $24 million in penalties, with a judge doubling the penalty ACMA recommended against the promoter. 

The Full Federal Court has found Hansard extracts are inadmissible in Tesa Group's judicial review challenge to Fair Work Commission Deputy President and former Labor MP Terri Butler's refusal to recuse herself from the mining company's 'same job, same pay' cases.