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The owners of land acquired by Transport for New South Wales to build the M12 motorway to the new Western Sydney Airport must be compensated an additional $28.6 million to align with the value of their property after it was rezoned, a court has found.

Transport for NSW has issued a warning to M6 construction contractors CPB, Ghella and UGL over a “sustained failure” to resume work on the Sydney motorway after sinkholes forced a halt to the project in 2024.

A Queensland solicitor has been referred to the Legal Services Commission after filing submissions in a client’s traffic offense case that a judge said contained fake citations and may have been AI-generated.

The corporate regulator has filed proceedings seeking to wind up a company in the steel empire of billionaire Sanjeev Gupta for failure to lodge financial reports for four years. 

The reluctance of Pacific Werribee Shopping Centre co-owner Wadren to withdraw a non-compliant expert report in a $356 million defects case against the collapsed Probuild has raised the hackles of the presiding judge.

MinterEllison has advised Mirvac on a contract for a major redevelopment at the site of the former Sydney Fish Market.

In the latest chapter of a bitter feud between NSW Director of Public Prosecutions and District Court Judge Penelope Wass, the state's Court of Appeal has found parliamentary privilege doesn't bar the top prosecutor from launching a recusal bid in a criminal trial.

A Sydney lawyer has successfully defended a case alleging he should have advised an X-ray business and its director that their defences in proceedings against medical device maker Philips were hopeless.

An upcoming trial in a case over a Victorian Liberal Party-linked company's decision to give former party leader John Pesutto a $1.5 million loan to help him avoid bankruptcy has been vacated.

A judge has taken a Perth law firm to task after a junior solicitor was left to apologise for a failure to comply with court orders in proceedings against BP, saying one of the principals should have taken responsibility instead.