The NSW government is fighting a bid to add a direct discrimination claim by the lead applicant in a class action alleging racial discrimination over the placement of children in state care.
The developer of a 17-storey social housing in Greenborough, Victoria has filed a lawsuit against Melbourne developer Alpha14 Property Group seeking declarations that it has no interest in the property.
Mining Services International is taking a $1 billion dispute over the terminated sale of a mine in Bahia to the High Court, after the receiver for Brazilian mining company Atlantic Nickel won a bid to stay the case.
Singapore’s CapitaLand has secured judgment in the Federal Court against a missing executive accused of embezzling the real estate asset manager’s funds.
Harvey Norman says it should be fined no more than $24 million for running misleading ads, urging a court not to punish it for “intemperate” remarks its founder made in the media about the legal system.
Piper Alderman has been pulled back into a costs dispute after a judge found the director of dairy company Care A2 had an arguable defence and set aside a default judgment for the law firm.
The Takeovers Panel has agreed to hear Mayne Pharma’s latest dispute with Cosette over the US drug maker’s attempts to walk away from their $672 million merger agreement and extended the timeline for completing the deal.
ASIC has lodged an appeal of a ruling that tossed its conflicted remuneration case against Freedom Insurance’s former boss and another executive over a sales incentive scheme.
A court has rejected a bid to expand a lawsuit over a Chinese investor’s $27.5 million contract to purchase a building at 99 Queen Street in Melbourne to join the matriarch of the “very wealthy” family.
Spanish multinational electrical giant Iberdrola has been selected to design and operate the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West transmission project, part of the state’s pipeline of new energy infrastructure projects.