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The company that paid $60 million for bankrupt Jon Adgemis' Noah's Backpackers hotel in Bondi Beach has been ordered to cough up $6 million in GST refunds to a Singapore special purpose vehicle that arranged a loan for the purchase.

A judge has awarded investment firm Merricks Capital $46 million in its lawsuit against tech entrepreneur Peter Crown and his wife over a loan to purchase land in the Southern Highlands.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to temporararily block developer Clarence Property from building artificial frog ponds in Brunswick Heads as part of a 123-lot residential development.

Two law firms will battle for carriage of a shareholder class action against hearing device manufacturer Cochlear, a court has heard. 

The High Court has been asked to revive a class action brought by a postgrad student who alleges the research stipend he received from Sydney University was less than minimum wage.

The Victorian government is seeking summary dismissal of a class action alleging government curfews put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic were unlawful, arguing the case was filed out of time.

Victoria has become the second Australian state to introduce a ban on smart glasses in schools, citing student safety concerns.

Hearing a fight over $40 million in costs in a case over the sale of Dexus shares in Australia Pacific Airport Corporation, a judge has said he doubts the airport operator can recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on a media consultant during the dispute.

Allens has advised ENGIE on the expansion of a battery energy storage system in Victoria at the site of the former Hazelwood power station.

A traditional owner has won a challenge to the Victorian government's approval of a floodplain engineering project at Vinifera on the Murray River.