Judges

The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction has been hit with self-executing orders to file evidence in Victoria's case over alleged combustible cladding on a Melbourne building, after unexplained delays.

The High Court has been asked to weigh in on whether issue and Anshun estoppel apply to SOP Act claims, with a South Australian wind farm seeking to overturn a ruling ordering it to make a $21 million progress payment to joint venture partners GE Renewable Energy and Elecnor.

Aviation company Corporate Air Charter is taking its fight over pilot pay up to the High Court, after twice losing its argument that stand-by duty should not be remunerated.

A developer seeking to redevelop the site of the Hyde Park Inn has lost its bid for an extra 15 months to pay up over $95 million to the NSW branch of the RSL to settle the purchase, but a judge has handed it a win in the process for determining the final price tag for the deal.

A former synagogue president has won $120,000 in damages after suing The Age and two journalists over articles that accused him of unilaterally inviting a convicted spy to speak at an event.

HCF Life insurance has been hit with a $750,000 penalty for including a pre-existing condition term in a life insurance policy, which a judge found was likely to mislead.

The failure of two class actions to prove loss linked to the Commonwealth Bank's disclosure breaches was not the fault of the bank, an appeals court has held in dealing the latest blow to shareholder group proceedings. 

An appeals court has rejected Keybridge CEO Nick Bolton's challenge to a ruling that found that he and two other directors were validly removed at a board meeting, finding in favour of shareholder WAM Active. 

A $59 million settlement has been reached in a long-running class action accusing five major banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging.