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A company incorporated to manage a development in regional Victoria has lost its bid to withdraw admissions in a case by property developer Villawood alleging a former director engaged in a fraudulent scheme to divert management fees.

Vietnamese airline VietJet has lost its appeal against the registration of a $254 million judgment in a dispute over payments for the leasing of Airbus A321 passenger jets.

Western Australia-based wagering company Playwest has sued Apple after its app was removed from the App Store without notice over alleged fraud concerns.

A company controlled by Paul Chiodo has lobbed a $200 million suit targeting City Built director Roberto Filippini, with the former Keystone director joining the company's liquidators in chasing millions in allegedly misappropriated development funds.

Qube has accused Martinus Rail of behaving like a “delinquent debtor” as it seeks to restrain the logistics company from enforcing a $26 million judgment in a dispute over Sydney’s $4 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

A judge has ruled in favour of a funder who unknowingly agreed not to claim ownership over a council refund worth $800,000, the court finding that the developer’s director intended to claim the refund without the funder’s knowledge. 

A class action against Jetstar over flight cancellations during COVID-19 wants to add claims alleging the airline breached consumer guarantees and made intentionally false statements to hundreds of thousands of customers. 

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum has dropped a swathe of claims, including allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct, as it seeks to amend its case for the tenth time in four years.

A judge has tossed a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, finding it did not have binding agreements to buy 500,000 metric tonnes of coal annually from two NSW coal miners controlled by Jindal Steel.

The developer behind a Shellharbour mixed-use development has defeated a suit seeking to make him personally repay a company debt, in a dispute a judge called a “cautionary tale” about side deals.