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NSW builder Hort Constructions is seeking urgent orders to restrain Iluka Resources from calling on a $1.45 million bank guarantee, claiming the mining company is seeking the funds for an improper purpose.

A judge has closed a racial discrimination class action against Adani’s Australian mining business after finding that it sought to go “much further” than the complaint filed with the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Venture capital firm EVP has sought the court’s leave to proceed with claims against Strongroom AI founder and former director Christopher Durre, despite his financial state. 

A shareholder class action against Arrium directors and auditor KPMG over the $4 billion collapse of the steel manufacturer is seeking to amend its case, saying a “misreading” of the original pleading is no basis to refuse the application.

Insurance Australia Limited has settled $4 billion action brought by Germany's Greensill Bank and its administrator ahead of a six-month trial against the insurer and others over the failure of the trade financier.

Lawyers stuck inside by the dreary, cold weather have been keeping busy penning a slew of new suits targeting the likes of Coles, REA and Nine.

Woolworths has told a judge in an underpayments class action where its remediation costs could stretch to $330 million that sending a notice to group members reminding them to keep records would be “premature and potentially misleading”. 

A First Nations landowner can't add 33 family members to his suit alleging statements from Adani about him amid disputes about the Carmichael open-cut mine in Queensland contravened the Racial Discrimination Act. 

Dexus has lost its case over the validity of a default notice issued by Melbourne Aiport's operator, with a judge saying the real estate asset manager breached the company's confidentiality and "irrevocably undermined" its relationship with fellow shareholders.

Heads may roll after a court on Friday rejected the evidence of key Dexus employees at trial over a breach of APAC's shareholder deed, in a ruling that revealed some insiders suspected the "embarassing blunder" would come back to bite.