The Queensland government has introduced defamation reforms to bring it in line with other jurisdictions and prevent “forum shopping,” adding a new defence for social media platforms and increasing powers for courts.
New York-headquartered King & Spalding has launched an Australian practice, opening a Sydney office as a gateway to the firm’s global platform for Australian multinationals and clients with business in the region.
A judge has largely given the go-ahead to Buildcorp Group’s proposed amendments to cross-claims as trial gets under way in a case over aluminium cladding at Star Entertainment’s Sydney casino.
Agricultural giant Graincorp has reached a settlement in a class action by rural Victorians over noise and odour pollution allegedly emitted by its oilseed factory in rural Victoria.
Buildcorp Group is pointing the finger at a host of subcontractors as it fights a case brought by Star Entertainment over allegedly defective combustible cladding at its Sydney casino, which cost $4.4 million to replace.
ASIC has secured winding up orders against Gold Coas- based ALAMMC Developments and a number of related companies amid concerns the property developer mismanaged millions of investors funds.
Owners of apartments in Sydney’s One Central Park, who are embroiled in disputes with developer Frasers over defective planter boxes on the building’s façade, can’t get a court declaration to impact rectification works.
Piper Alderman has appointed a new partner to its litigation team in Sydney with specialist expertise in litigation funding.
The ACCC will not stand in the way of Elders’ $475 million takeover of rival farm supplier Delta Agribusiness, after the agribusiness giant provided an undertaking to divest six Delta stores in Western Australia.
Western Sydney University is facing a class action alleging it misled students into studying a health engineering degree that was unaccredited, on the heels of similar claims being leveled at the University of Newcastle.