Events

Pitcher Partners has taken a former client to court, alleging it failed to pay a $1.3 million 'abort fee' after it withdrew from a proposal to sell the business. 

The funder that's backing a class action over land compulsorily acquired for Sydney's WestConnex road project has been ordered to pay security in satellite proceedings seeking to claw back $1.4 million in costs from the lead applicants.

Institutional asset manager IFM Investor was ready to sweep up Dexus' shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC under a forced sale process triggered by a default notice for alleged confidentiality breaches, a court heard Tuesday.

Queensland developer York Property has lost its appeal of a ruling that held an adjudicator erred in finding $4.7 million in costs over alleged façade defects should be deducted from amounts owed in a payments spat with a builder Tomkins. 

A deed of company arrangement for three companies associated with developer Descon-Adcon has fallen apart after former boss Danny Isaac failed to make a $5 million contribution required under the rescue plan. 

AstraZeneca can inspect Pharmacor's emails to verify its claim that the merits of its challenge to a patent extension for blockbuster diabetes drug Forxiga were not appreciated at an earlier time, with a judge finding Pharmacor had waived privilege. 

The former Australian head of HR at real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle alleges she was unfairly sacked in the fallout of a harassment investigation against an executive despite having recommended his dismissal. 

Design tech giant Canva has settled Fair Work proceedings brought by a former software engineer over his sacking. 

The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia has failed in its bid for special leave to the High Court, after an appeals court found it couldn't escape unfair dismissal proceedings.

The High Court has refused special leave to BHP in a case testing orders that it pay labour hire workers at its Queensland coal mines the same as its permanent employees.