A court has found that United Petroleum is not bound by the terms of a signed lease offer sent to a neighbouring Gold Coast pharmacy operator, ruling the company’s property consultant had no authority to negotiate or enter into a new lease on its behalf.
Brookfield has scooped up a 19.9 per cent stake in real estate investment manager Cromwell Property Group.
Abacus Storage Kings will open its books for a consortium of Ki Corporation and New York Stock Exchange-listed Public Storage, which lobbed a $2.2 billion takeover offer last week.
A judge has approved an $87 million settlement in a class action against Hino Motors, but says he needs to hear from a contradictor before greenlighting a law firm’s 25 per cent contingency fee.
A barrister who won a defamation case against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has lost her bid to appeal a ruling in a fight with her former solicitors over fees.
A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.
A law firm has filed a representative complaint with the OAIC on behalf of six million Qantas customers affected by the company’s recent data breach.
Glencore Coal has lost its case against the Port of Newcastle alleging it has been overcharged shipping fees based on a determination by the competition watchdog.
A racial discrimination class action against the Northern Territory government and its police commissioner could “call into question” policing across the territory, a judge has said.
The Finance Sector Union has taken Commonwealth Bank to the Fair Work Commission over the alleged “sham redundancy” of over 100 positions it says are being offshored to India in breach of an enterprise agreement.