New South Wales

The High Court has agreed to weigh in on when uncommon use of land amounts to a nuisance in a class action by small business owners over Sydney's light rail construction.

Seven Network and Chanel 7 have been hit with a $200,000 defamation judgment for implying three men involved an incident during a 2020 NRL match were racist.

Practitioners who ignore a new practice note on the use of AI programs should not expect the court's sympathy, the top judge in NSW has warned as the guidance comes into operation this week.

A Sydney law firm and its principal have been ordered to pay over $1.2 million to a former client after the solicitor was found to have failed to give proper advice about a hotel purchase.

AAI has lost its bid to appeal an order joining it to a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed at two high-rise towers in Liverpool, NSW. 

Citing rising costs of materials and labour, NSW Central Coast builder Clarke Homes has entered voluntary administration, with several building projects incomplete.

A child removal class action against the state of New South Wales has been given more time to clarify its pleadings after a judge raised concerns that parts of the "important case" were unclear.

Lawyers for tech start-up Dovetail want the Federal Court to suppress the details of a "scandalous" lawsuit brought against the company and its CEO by an in-house lawyer.

The NSW Supreme Court has relaxed its blanket ban on the use of AI in proceedings, clarifying its new rules don't apply to discovery or the generation of certain materials by closed model AI systems.

A judge has rejected an “ambitious and novel” freezing order sought by a creditor and former associate of bankrupt Graaf Group founder Gennaro Autore over a $22 million boutique hotel in Potts Point.