New South Wales

A judge has tossed a challenge by the Palestine Action Group to the NSW government's decision to declare the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog a 'major event' triggering new protest rules enacted in the wake of the Bondi massacre. 

A court has rejected a developer’s plans for a Sydney housing development, finding its cramped townhouses would provide little amenity to future residents and encroach upon an endangered environment site.

Actress Rebel Wilson has fired lawyers who were representing her in NSW Supreme Court and Federal Court defamation proceedings linked to her film 'The Deb'.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has argued she should be dismissed from a dispute with a neighbour at her Sundown Valley cattle station over a fence, with the neighbor telling a judge no lawyer will represent her in the dispute with the billionaire.

A Sydney barrister has taken a law firm to court, alleging it owes him $1 million in unpaid fees for his work on almost 40 cases. But the firm argues the fee agreements are void.

The child of a Holocaust survivor, barrister Gregory Sirtes has been sworn in as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court, saying his appointment was the "tiniest repayment" for the opportunities given to his Hungarian Jewish family as post-war migrants.

Property investor Charter Hall has dropped $152 million for a 50 per cent stake in Western Sydney University's Parramatta campus. 

The owner of Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse has won its bid for a stay on the appointment of an administrator by regulator Racing NSW, which has raised concerns about a “material uncertainty” in the club’s accounts. 

A subsidiary of gold mining giant Newmont has been hit with a class action alleging residents near its Cadia mine in Orange, NSW have been exposed to a "toxic trifecta" of air, land and water pollution.

A leading construction and infrastructure lawyer with major projects and disputes experience will head up Jones Day's Sydney office as one of the firm's new partners-in-charge.