MinterEllison

MinterEllison's market-leading construction team is readying for a jump in claims stemming from reforms to Victoria's Security of Payment Act and navigating 'crisis contracting' for clients amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East -- and with a new partner soon to join its ranks, the firm is ready for the challenges.

A tribunal has declined to approve a planned Veolia waste consolidation facility 220 metres from a residential area, after receiving hundreds of objections that expressed concerns about odour.

A judge has hit Electro Optic Systems with a $4 million penalty after the defence firm admitted to continuous disclosure breaches by failing to reveal a drop in its 2022 revenue forecasts.

Martinus Rail has won access to some documents produced in a dispute with logistics company Qube over the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal project, despite claims by the logistics company that the material was privileged.

Rio Tinto's struggling Tomago Aluminium Company has lost a challenge to a $52 million valuation of the land occupied by its Hunter Valley smelter, despite arguing the sum was too high in light of electricity costs and the limited pool of notional buyers.

Bupa has hit back at a class action alleging it provided poor quality care to residents at its aged care facilities, saying it was "not appropriate" to run the case as a group proceeding. 

A judge has approved a $50 million settlement in a class action against ANZ and superannuation trustee OnePath, but has slashed by half a proposed $1.76 million deduction for the plaintiff firm's after-the-event insurance.

A Federal Court judge has refused to alter freezing orders to cover rent costs for the couple behind defunct NDIS housing developer ALAMMC, after the Queensland Supreme Court made possession orders over their Gold Coast apartment.

In a class action over alleged faulty plumbing pipes produced by Fletcher Building's Iplex, construction company BGC told a court Friday it had been overwhelmed by calls for repairs to the 7,000 Perth homes fitted with the pipes.

The High Court is set to weigh in on part of an 1881 law invalidated by the NSW Court of Appeal when the state premier’s chief of staff skirted a bid to compel him to give evidence to a parliamentary committee.