The builder behind the ill-fated Opal Tower has lost its opposition in the NSW Supreme Court to a $3.9 million guarantee requested by the property’s developer, after a judge found it had not proved compliance with its contractual obligations.
Farmers in a class action against Advanta Seeds over allegedly contaminated sorghum have defeated a bid by the company to hand over a list of all group members who have signed funding agreements to join the case.
A company owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost its bid to temporarily block funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort, with the Federal Court finding that special levies garnered from villa owners to back the proceedings were above board and legal.
A former prosecutor working for the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions in its sexual offences division has won a $435,000 judgment by the state’s Supreme Court after being diagnosed with depression and PTSD during her time working there.
An Adelaide lawyer has been awarded $750,000 in damages after suing a woman who gave him bad reviews on Google that sent 80 per cent of his clients packing.
A Melbourne-based craft brewery has had its ‘Urban Ale’ trade mark cancelled, with a judge finding other beer makers might want to use the words to describe their products and that cancelling the mark would be in the public interest.
A former director of Atrum Coal has been ordered to pay over $6 million owed to a unit of Hong Kong finance giant Argonaut Group after a prior default saw the former executive lose $12 million worth of shares in the company.
The NSW government has flagged a possible challenge to a class action over Sydney’s $3 billion delayed light rail project as the four-week trial scheduled for June is pushed back another year to allow time for more discovery.
A Sydney rabbi who told the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he did not know touching a child’s genitals was a crime has lost a defamation case against SBS and the Murdoch-owned Nationwide News, with the NSW Supreme Court finding that the media “accurately reported” the rabbi’s own words.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a general protections dispute brought by an “agoraphobic” beautician after social media posts revealed an active social life including gin, Greek food and the Melbourne Cup.