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Icon fights Citta Group’s bid to vacate trial over alleged $1.2M debt
Contracts 2025-02-19 11:37 pm By Sam Matthews

Building company Icon is fighting developer Citta’s application to vacate the hearing of its claim to $1.2 million for consulting work on a Victorian state project, rejecting the developer’s claim it was ambushed by a new defence.

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Hynash loses set-off argument in challenge to subcontractor’s pay claim
Construction 2025-02-19 11:42 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Civil construction company Hynash has lost an appeal bid after a judgment put it on the hook for the full sum of a payment claim lodged by a subcontractor following the termination of a contract linked to a Bathurst, NSW project.

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NSW government flexes new fast-track authority, approves 11 new developments
Policy and Regulation 2025-02-19 11:05 pm By Andy Sidler

A newly created NSW authority tasked with speeding housing developments has selected eleven developments promising 6,400 new homes for fast-track approval.

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Vic Police accused of ‘total overreach’ as pepper spray class action kicks off
Trials 2025-02-17 2:56 pm By Andy Sidler

Victoria Police’s use of pepper spray to disperse environmental protesters at a 2019 mining conference was a “total overreach” of force, a court has heard.

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Meriton faces $123M claim over Sydney North Shore apartments
Construction 2025-02-18 5:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Owners at the Alcove development in Sydney’s North Shore have been given the green light to expand their case against the Meriton-owned builders to claim $123 million in damages for alleged systemic defects. 

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Mirvac wins dispute over licence for Birkenhead luxury outlet shop
Real Estate 2025-02-18 5:23 pm By Sam Matthews

Property developer Mirvac has won a $220,000 dispute against designer outlet store Estro over unpaid licence fees and charges under a commercial lease for a store at Sydney’s Birkenhead Point.

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Favouring ‘light touch’, judge stays suit against Esso, Woodside over Bass Strait royalties
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-02-18 11:37 pm By Sam Matthews

Gas giants Esso and Woodside have won their bid to stay a court case related to a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait, with a judge finding the court should apply a ‘light touch’ when interpreting arbitration agreements.

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Seven, reporter win strike-out bid in AFL player’s defamation case
Defamation 2025-02-14 11:12 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Seven can strike out part of West Coast Eagles player Jack Darling’s suit alleging it was the ‘publisher’ of allegedly defamatory articles in The West Australian that accused him of being anti-vax.

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Development manager behind $2.7B STH BNK project owes $100M
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-02-17 11:38 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The development management company behind the $2.7 billion STH BNK project, which was placed in administration last week, owes creditors — including lawyers, consultants and designers — over $100 million.

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No privilege waiver by Holiday Inn Express developer in claiming damages: court
Appeals 2025-02-17 11:51 pm By Christine Caulfield

The developer of a suite of Holiday Inn Express hotels has succeeded in its appeal of a ruling that laid bare privileged material connected to its lawyers’ bills.

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