Engineering firm GHD Australia, which has recently been joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has flagged bringing its own cross-claims.
Insurer Liberty Mutual has argued that CPB Contractors and John Holland’s $150 million in claims in relation to Sydney’s North West Rail project are largely out of time, in a lawsuit alleging the insurer breached its duty of good faith.
A judge has made contempt findings against a real estate agent who attached discovered documents to emails that railed against alleged collusion between a local council and the EPA, but stopped short of finding he intimidated witnesses in a spat over a Ballarat development.
The publisher of the Herald Sun has filed a strike-out application against novel privacy claims by the wife of Victorian Liberals’ deputy leader Sam Groth, saying it was exempt as a news outlet.
A court has slapped a 14-year jail term on Perth businessman Chris Marco, after a jury found him guilty of 43 charges connected to a $34 million fraud on investors.
A class action by inmates in the Dillwynia Women’ s Correctional Centre who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a corrections officer can send a notice encouraging — but not requiring — group members to sign up.
Engineering firm Calibre can’t get minutes of meetings involving Probuild and the owners of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria to defend itself in $356 million defects suit.
One of 50 subcontractors left unpaid after Victoria’s Department of Education nixed three construction project contracts with failed builder Roberts Co (VIC) is set to join in proceedings seeking declarations under a deed of company arrangement.
Twenty-one barristers in Victoria have won the title of senior counsel, including two class action lawyers from opposing sides of the bar table who have been involved in negotiating recent blockbuster settlements.
HWL Ebsworth and former partner Dennis Bluth have been hit with a new lawsuit in the Victorian Supreme Court after allegedly providing negligent advice regarding a development in south-west Sydney.