Law Firms

A class action over the planned demolition of inner-city public housing towers has filed a special leave bid with the High Court, arguing that Homes Victoria’s failure to give residents notice of the rebuild affected their right to remain in settled social communities. 

Amid a dispute over a $52 million mixed-use project in Melbourne, builder LU Simon has secured a court's approval to pay the developer cash equivalent to two bank guarantees in exchange for return of the security.

The defendants in Lendlease's lawsuit over combustible cladding used on its $107 million EXO residential apartment block in Melbourne's Docklands have pointed the finger at one another six months out from trial in the long-running proceedings.

A Sydney developer has been slapped with orders preventing it from selling the ‘Honeycomb Terraces’ in order to preserve the funds available to the owners corporation, which is seeking damages over defects at the allegedly contaminated site.

An adjudicator’s finding that it had no jurisdiction to rule on a payment claim in a dispute over a Sydney development was a binding determination under SOPA, an appeals court has said in upholding a decision that a builder’s pursuit of a second, favourable adjudication was an abuse of process.

Former senator Linda Reynolds' decision to accept the Commonwealth's help in picking up her legal tab in litigation by staffer Brittany Higgins came with the condition that the government might take control of her defence, a court has been told.

A solar company's claims against 12 Mazars' partners have been dismissed from a $9.3 million embezzlement lawsuit, after a judge found the allegations had no prospects of success.

Macquarie is fighting a bid to amend a class action over an alleged misleading prospectus for Nuix’s $1.8 billion IPO only months out from trial, calling the changes “unclear and unfair”. 

A class action representing KFC workers who were denied rest breaks has reached a settlement with the bulk of the fast food chain's franchisees targeted in the case.

Aristocrat has fended off the Commissioner of Patents' challenge to a finding that its Lightning Link poker machine is capable of being patented, with the High Court declining to weigh in on the patent for a second time.