Law Firms

A challenge to the City of Sydney's refusal to approve a digital billboard on the heritage-listed Grace Bros building has fallen flat, with a judge saying the sign would “dominate the skyline” and affect key views from Broadway.

A judge hearing a class action alleging the Northern Territory public housing authority failed to maintain habitable public housing in remote Aboriginal communities has declined to vacate an October hearing and has limited the scope of the initial trial.

NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees had no power to continue charging members for $165 million in fees to pay adviser commission after conflicted remuneration was banned in 2016, an appeals court has heard.

The High Court has been asked to undo a stay granted to gas giants Esso and Woodside in a lawsuit related to a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait.

The University of Sydney has won its bid to add an $80 million claim to its six-year-old case against Multiplex over alleged defects at the Charles Perkins Centre.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised Wollemi Capital on a blended finance facility provided by not-for-profit Transition Accelerator for a carbon credit reforestation project in Western Australia.

Developer Vantager has been ordered to sell off six properties to satisfy a judgment debt and compensate buyers who overpaid for a Denham Court property by more than $34 million due to what the court called the developer's "brazen fraud and dishonesty". 

Corporate advisory firm Cadence has left court worse off after bringing a defects suit against a builder and subcontractor on a residential development in New South Wales’ south coast, with the builder winning a $140,000 judgment on its cross-claim.

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge. 

Lander & Rogers has hired a disputes lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer to join its Brisbane-based commercial disputes practice as a partner.