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GM moves to strike out class action’s ‘circular’ pleading
Class Actions 2025-04-03 4:49 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has said he is satisfied that GM’s concerns about a class action’s “circular” explanation of alleged design flaws in certain Holden vehicles are “not trivial”. 

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StrongRoom AI unit warns creditors to sort out freezing orders fast
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-04-03 4:57 pm By Sam Matthews

A unit of collapsed start-up StrongRoom AI has warned creditors of its parent company that recent freezing orders need to be tweaked to allow it to continue trading, or there may be little money left to argue over. 

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AIA hits architect, builder with cross-claims in combustible cladding class action
Charles Colquhoun 2025-04-04 2:53 pm By Andy Sidler

Insurer AIA, fresh off losing a bid to be severed from a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed in two high-rise towers in a Sydney suburb, has lobbed cross-claims at the towers’ architect and builder. 

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AVID wins approval for 300-home Waterford development in NSW’s Hunter Valley
Real Estate 2025-04-04 11:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

AVID Residential has secured approval for a 300-lot development in Chisholm, NSW, following an appeal of a deemed refusal by the Maitland City Council.

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Clarke Energy can’t set aside $8.7M arbitration win for Territory Generation
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-04-04 11:19 pm By Andy Sidler

Power plant engineer Clarke Energy has lost a challenge to an arbitration win for NT energy provider Territory Generation for delays in construction work on two Alice Spring power facilities.

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Brickworks settles competition suit against rival BGC
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-04-03 11:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Australia’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks has settled a competition case brought against rival BGC, a company founded by billionaire Len Buckeridge. 

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Allianz’s $170M class action settlement OK’d, law firms to pocket $42.5M
Class Actions 2025-04-02 9:56 am By Christine Caulfield

A court has approved a $170 million settlement in a class action against Allianz, and has signed off on an order that gives the firms behind the case 25 per cent of the deal.

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Mineral Resources, Chris Ellison hit with shareholder class action
Class Actions 2025-04-02 10:25 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have been hit with a shareholder class action over alleged disclosure failures related to transactions with a company Ellison owned.

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Zip hopes High Court buys honest concurrent use defence in high-stakes trade mark suit
Intellectual Property 2025-04-02 11:01 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Buy now, pay later giant Zip will ask the High Court to throw out a ruling that found it infringed mortgage provider Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark and barred it from using the name in Australia.

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JB Asset Management wins back funds from failed $395M development deal
Real Estate 2025-04-03 11:05 pm By Sam Matthews

JB Asset Management has clawed back $3 million from a scuttled real estate deal involving LBA Capital, almost a year after LBA’s director was jailed for fraud.

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