A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Homes Victoria decided to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne without consulting residents, saying the government agency’s power to redevelop land “is not conditioned on observing procedural fairness”.
An appeals court has dismissed a competition case by Mayfield Development against NSW Ports over agreements to privatise two ports, finding that derivative Crown immunity applied to the port authority.
The owners of a luxury property in Sydney’s Northbridge owe the home’s high-end builder payment of oustanding invoices, after a judge rejected as “absurd” the couple’s construction of a special condition in their contract.
Insurer AIA, fresh off losing a bid to be severed from a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed in two high-rise towers in a Sydney suburb, has lobbed cross-claims at the towers’ architect and builder.
Australia’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks has settled a competition case brought against rival BGC, a company founded by billionaire Len Buckeridge.
Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have been hit with a shareholder class action over alleged disclosure failures related to transactions with a company Ellison owned.
A Sydney silk who has worked on several car defect class actions and represented Apple over claims it engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace has been appointed to the NSW Court of Appeal.
JB Asset Management has clawed back $3 million from a scuttled real estate deal involving LBA Capital, almost a year after LBA’s director was jailed for fraud.
The builder contracted to carry out expansion works at Casey Hospital in Berwick has sued its insurer for refusing to cover $4 million in damages caused by a subcontractor’s delays.
The High Court has refused special leave to Transport for NSW to weigh in on a dispute over the value of land acquired near the Western Sydney Airport.