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A judge has put Star on the hook for over $1 million in Buildcorp's legal costs after largely losing its suit over alleged defective construction work on its Sydney casino, describing the case as "fairly disastrous".

An appeals court ruling has confirmed that non-contracting owners must prove their own loss to claim defect damages under warranties in the Domestic Building Contracts Act. 

An appeals court has rejected a challenge to a permanent stay in a misleading and deceptive conduct case against engineering firm Everllence over alleged defective connective rods in engines supplied for a fast ferry registered in Denmark.

A judge has struck out a crypto company's injurious falsehood case against the Sydney Morning Herald's publisher after finding its statement of claim did not plead a cause of action.

The operator of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel, which is challenging approval of a development in Macquarie Street, can't rely in its case on an engineering report showing the alleged threat to the structural integrity of a hotel driveway.

A member of a wealthy shipping dynasty and former INXS manager Maria-Christina Perez de la Sala must go back to the drawing board in her case staking a claim to her father’s estate, after a court struck out most of her case. 

The owner of a concrete business has lost his suit against the purchasers for compensation for out of hours work, with a judge finding his services agreement made clear he was to be paid a fixed annual rate of $200,000.

A judge has granted the first-ever application to vary a contingency fee in a class action that has yet to reach settlement or judgment, but has warned his decision doesn't set a precedent for “routine variation” of group costs orders. 

A class action against Dr Daniel Lanzer and his clinic has won approval to allege that some doctors passed themselves off as plastic surgeons in social media posts, including some that included the terms #plasticsurgeon and #plasticsurgery.

A court has found that Racing NSW's appointment of an administrator to the owner of Sydney's Randwick Racecourse over financial concerns was invalid.