Judges

Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.

Childcare provider G8 Education on Friday lost a challenge to a ruling that it cover the legal costs of its former chair, who faced criminal charges that were dropped in March.

In its case accusing Australian Gas Networks of greenwashing with ads promising gas was “becoming renewable”, the consumer regulator is pushing the company to identify who it says had reasonable grounds for the statements.

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a "hopelessly flawed" patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

The judge overseeing a class action alleging Sony used restrictive trade practices to block competition with its Playstation store has told the applicant to get “a bigger team” on the slow-moving case. 

Herald Sun articles about Victorian Deputy Liberal Leader Sam Groth's relationship with his wife, Brittany, are "precisely " the kind of journalism protected by an exemption in new privacy laws, a court has heard.

The High Court has declined to hear an appeal of a ruling that found the directors of payday lenders Cigno and BSF are liable for the companies' unlicensed credit activity.

A judge won't schedule an initial trial on the limitations period in a $150 million coverage spat between insurers and Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland.

A judge has lengthened the trial in pianist Jayson Gillham's case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from five to 15 days, noting the substantial number of witnesses and the reputational consequences of the case. 

Wealth manager Colonial First State Investments and insurer AIA have reached a $140 million settlement in a long-running class action alleging 700,000 superannuation members were charged inflated premiums on insurance products linked to former owner CBA.