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Loss of affordable housing ‘not fatal’ to Annandale development: court
Thomson Geer 2025-11-11 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Sydney developer has won a dispute with the Inner West Council over its Annandale housing project application, despite a court finding it would cause a loss of affordable housing. 

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Billboard company Manboom loses trespass case against Jemena Gas
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-11-11 11:36 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.

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Solicitor who misrepresented judge’s view loses appeal of caution
Legal Ethics 2025-11-10 11:51 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A solicitor who attributed a barrister’s submission about his client’s capacity to a Supreme Court judge in a letter to a costs assessor has lost an appeal of a NSW Law Society decision to caution him.

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Builder Bloc suing over defects in Newcastle development
Construction 2025-11-10 11:43 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.

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Development consent for Sydney Airport hotel ‘in force’: NCAT
Construction 2025-11-10 11:53 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not ‘in force’.

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G8 Education loses appeal over ex-chair’s criminal defence costs
Appeals 2025-11-07 3:04 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Childcare provider G8 Education on Friday lost a challenge to a ruling that it cover the legal costs of its former chair, who faced criminal charges that were dropped in March.

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Acciona takes aim at ‘hopelessly flawed’ patent suit over $511M waste-to-energy plant
Intellectual Property 2025-11-07 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a “hopelessly flawed” patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

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Groth articles in Herald Sun ‘precisely’ the journalism exempt under privacy law, court told
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-11-06 11:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Herald Sun articles about Victorian Deputy Liberal Leader Sam Groth’s relationship with his wife, Brittany, are “precisely ” the kind of journalism protected by an exemption in new privacy laws, a court has heard.

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Law firm client loses High Court case over interest on repaid fees
Business of Law 2025-11-05 11:22 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has dismissed a case by a law firm client who claimed he was entitled under the law of restitution to $1.4 million in interest on a $900,000 sum his lawyers repaid in a fight about legal fees.

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GrainCorp class action settlement off table, trial back on
Class Actions 2025-11-05 3:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

The parties in a class action against agricultural giant GrainCorp over alleged noise and odour pollution from a factory in rural Victoria have failed to seal the deal on a settlement reached last month.

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