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Engineering company Monadelphous has been awarded a long-term maintenance services contract with Rio Tinto valued at $300 million over five years. 

Protesters bringing a constitutional challenge over the declaration of the Melbourne CBD as a 'designated area' want to join a third person to the case after the police assistant commissioner argued the current applicants have no standing.

A former Holden dealer has lost a $9 million suit alleging General Motors misleadingly represented that it was “100% committed” to the line a few years before it decided to discontinue the brand. 

An appeals court has upheld a ruling that said "like diamonds, easements are forever", finding users of the Unley Shopping Centre do not have right of way over a council carpark and access point adjoining the Adelaide shopping centre.

A sublessee of an eight acre agricultural property in Austral has failed in his bid for nearly $500,000 in compensation after his crop was destroyed when he refused to vacate. 

A tribunal has ordered a Queensland solicitor to pay $30,000 for advertising personal injury services, up from the $2,000 penalty the lawyer agreed to pay, saying it was "concerning" the lawyer claimed ignorance of a breach of the law. 

The NSW Land and Environment Court has cleared the way for a backpackers and hotel accommodation development in Haymarket, Sydney.

Monarch Building Solutions has lost its bid to strike out waterproofing contractor PJG Frawley Construction’s claim for payment for work allegedly completed on a community-led project to replace buildings destroyed in bushfires in Cobargo. 

Alinta Energy has won an appeal against a mining warden's decision to refuse an extension to lodge objections against Pilbara Energy's licence application for a renewable energy project.

The purchaser of the site of the 108-room hotel Continental Hotel Sorrento has sued a consortium that rescued the development after it hit financial troubles, claiming it was excluded from the final stages of the receivership.