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Domino’s could be on the hook for $10M in costs after losing underpayments class action
A judge has rejected Domino's bid for a 30 per cent reduction in the costs it owes after losing an underpayments class action, saying the pizza chain will likely be on the hook for around $10 million in costs.
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InterContinental owner loses challenge to $160M Sydney mixed-use tower
The owner of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel has lost its challenge to the approval for a mixed-use tower at the site of the neighbouring Sir Stamford Hotel.
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Seymour Whyte loses suit against insurer over asbestos remediation costs
Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.
Cornwalls doesn’t have to foot CBA’s legal bill in negligence suit
Law firm Cornwalls is not on the hook for the Commonwealth Bank's costs in a negligence suit by a former client, a judge has found.
ALS must produce full McGrathNicol report into coal testing results
Testing lab ALS must hand over almost all of a McGrathNicol report into allegedly exaggerated coal testing results, after a judge found last year the company had waived privileged over parts of the report by referring to its findings in an ASX statement.
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Monadelphous wins bid to revive evidence in $2.6M suit over barge corrosion
Monadelphous has won the post-trial reversal of a ruling that excluded some of its evidence in a $2.6 million dispute over alleged corrosion damage to a marine barge.
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Lawyer’s honeymoon no reason to delay Chatswood strata renewal trial: court
A judge has refused to shift the trial dates in a dispute regarding a strata plan renewal for a Chatswood apartment block to accommodate a solicitor's honeymoon.
Cottle family group units bring $280M negligence suit against Nexia, PwC
Several entitles in the Cottle family group, which owns construction company FDC Construction & Fitout, have won more time to serve a $280 million negligence suit on accounting firms Nexia and PricewaterhouseCoopers over more than two decades of tax and financial advice.
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Judge won’t allow Forte’s new defence in $6.3M case by iProsperity liquidators
A judge has rejected Forte Construction's bid to overhaul its defence to $6.3 million in claims by the liquidators of collapsed real estate fund manager iProsperity, saying the company had shown "contumelious disregard" for the court's earlier orders.
Pauline Hanson loses appeal over ‘piss off back to Pakistan’ tweet
One Nation politician Pauline Hanson has lost her appeal of a ruling that found she breached the Racial Discrimination Act with a tweet that said Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should “piss off back to Pakistan”.