The New South Wales government has rejected a class action’s claims that it dropped the ball in relation to the identification and management of underground utilities which caused delays in Sydney’s $3 billion light rail project.
A class action on behalf of 3,500 business owners along Sydney’s light rail route has told a court that group members bore the brunt of the project’s delayed construction, described as “a train wreck which could be predicted from a mile away”.
The High Court has declined special leave to a former Rigby Cooke client who unsuccessfully challenged the law firm’s win in a dispute over a $24.5 million East Melbourne development.
Vocational education provider Box Hill Institute has agreed to pay $33 million to settle a class action by students who allege the diploma they obtained through the institute did not give them the knowledge or training needed to obtain a commercial pilot’s licence.
Opal Tower structural engineer WSP has been ordered to produce all professional indemnity policies covering its work on the defective building in a lawsuit against insurers for builder Icon, despite arguing for the “commercial sensitivity” of the information.
Vocational education provider Box Hill Institute has reached an in-principle settlement in a class action by disgruntled students who allege the licences they obtained through the institute did not provide them with the requisite knowledge or training to obtain a commercial pilot’s licence.
Three insurers for builder Icon are planning to test the reasonableness of a structural engineer’s defence costs in a now settled class action brought by apartment owners in Sydney’s ill-fated Opal Tower.
A barristers’ clerk has reached a confidential agreement with a Melbourne-based chambers to resolve a lawsuit alleging she was fired for wanting to work from home.
A Melbourne-based clerking service has denied that it fired a clerk because she asked to work from home to manage her disability and was absent from work due to COVID-19 complications.
A former managing director of adtech company Amobee can proceed with a complaint of disability discrimination by association, after he was fired for failing to disclose a relationship with an employee who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after a sexual assault by a senior executive.