Law Firms

An environmental group has lost its bid to stop slashing works at a development site at Brunswick Heads, after a judge tossed its lawsuit seeking to block the 123-lot residential development.

US private equity firm Brookfield has made a $4.09 billion play for Reliance Worldwide, in a takeover bid the plumbing giant said was a "meaningfully improved" proposal on three previous offers.

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the approval of Bowen Basin Coal's Meadowbrook project to extend its Lake Vermont open cut coal mine near Dysart, over objections from environmental activists.

A judge presiding over a decade-long class action over alleged defective Ford vehicles has raised concerns about the prospect of conflicting Full Federal Court judgments, as issues over damages continue.

Aristocrat has taken gaming giant Konami to court, alleging that more than 50 of the Japanese company's casino games infringe its patents. 

Former Today host Karl Stefanovic is being sued by his podcast business partner, who alleges oppressive conduct and is seeing a buyout of her shares. 

The Northern Territory's public housing authority can amend its defence in a class action alleging it failed to maintain habitable housing in remote Aboriginal communities to allege that tenants failed to keep housing "reasonably clean".

A Treasury Wine Estates unit has lost its bid to trade mark a red wine bottle with a red screw top, an embossed crest and white label, with a delegate finding it lacked distinctiveness.

Construction firm Civmec has sued the joint venture behind the $8 billion Sydney Metro Northwest project seeking enforcement of an arbitration award. 

A Singapore developer has failed in an application for a 13-storey hotel and residential redevelopment of the heritage-listed GIO building in Sydney's Haymarket.