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Contractor loses round in spat over $100M Club Moolia development
Construction 2025-03-05 11:27 pm By Christine Caulfield

A contractor for a proposed $100 million country club near Perth has lost a round in a legal battle that has stalled the project, losing a bid for a freezing order against the landowner.

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‘Unsound’: High Court arguments over historic St Kilda Rd property panned
Appeals 2025-03-04 11:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The valuer general has knocked arguments by developer WSTI Properties in a High Court dispute over a heritage property in Melbourne, saying the contentions are “unavailable and unsound”. 

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Canberra developer Geocon files appeal over GST on $113M development
Construction 2025-02-28 11:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Canberra developer Geocon has filed a legal challenge seeking a tax refund on sales from a development for 360 residential units. 

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ASIC, Noumi privilege win gives comfort to companies mulling VDAs
Analysis 2025-02-14 11:34 pm By Christine Caulfield

A finding that Noumi’s production of a PwC report to ASIC didn’t constitute waiver of privilege provides clarity that voluntary disclosure agreements can protect confidential information, but care must still be taken, lawyers say.

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Judge recuses himself from Pauline Hanson’s victimisation suit
Discrimination 2025-02-07 11:28 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has disqualified himself from presiding over a victimisation case lodged by Queensland senator Pauline Hanson against former colleague Brian Burston.

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Law firm found negligent in Victoria hotel transaction, owes $1.2M damages
Construction 2025-02-10 11:05 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A Sydney law firm and its principal have been ordered to pay over $1.2 million to a former client after the solicitor was found to have failed to give proper advice about a hotel purchase.

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Court fight erupts over coverage for cyclone damage to lux Hamilton Island development
Construction 2025-01-23 5:01 pm By Andy Sidler

The owners of a Hamilton Island resort are facing a potentially lengthy legal battle after suing their builder and its insurer over $20 million in allegedly defective rectification works completed after Cyclone Debbie.  The villas owned by Great Barrier Reef Yacht Club Villas were damaged in the March 2017 cyclone, after which Insurance Australia Limited…

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Legal fees to eat up more than half of COVID-19 class action settlement
Class Actions 2025-01-21 10:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Legal fees will eat up more than half of a $3.5 million settlement reached in a class action over deaths at a NSW aged care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Parkerville bushfire victim stuck with Western Power’s settlement offer
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-01-16 4:34 pm By Sam Matthews

A victim of the 2014 Parkerville bushfire can’t withdraw acceptance of a settlement offer from Western Power in light of PTSD symptoms which he said affected his judgment.

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CIMIC to hand over quality control info in $70M suit over squeaky building facade
Construction 2025-01-20 4:35 pm By Andy Sidler

The owners of Perth high rise HBF House have won their bid for more documents from builder CIMIC, as they seek to prove claims that the building squeaks when the weather changes and leaks when it rains. 

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