Victoria

The Victorian Court of Appeal will rule on whether to grant a lawyer an extension to appeal a tribunal decision ordering that he be removed from the roll and barred from practicing for nine years, after he argued a judge's adverse comments about him during an adjournment rendered a tribunal decision void. 

A tribunal has declined to approve a planned Veolia waste consolidation facility 220 metres from a residential area, after receiving hundreds of objections that expressed concerns about odour.

A 27-year old cricketer who will be permanently bound to a wheelchair has won a $15.2 million judgment against a local council over its failure to install pedestrian gates at a convenient location near the cricket grounds, with a judge finding this led to players routinely jumping a fence to exit. 

Pitcher Partners has taken a former client to court, alleging it failed to pay a $1.3 million 'abort fee' after it withdrew from a proposal to sell the business. 

The High Court has agreed to review a ruling that upheld an easement of prescription -- or right of long use -- in a fight between a member of the prominent Valmorbida family and an entity linked to the founder of collapsed construction group Steller over access to a Sorrento property.

A self-disclosed error in modelling by the law firm that ran a class action against Hino Motors has cost the firm an even deeper cut to its payout than the $6 million lopped off its settlement share last year.

A community group is seeking to quash a decision approving Southern Cross Gold’s Sunday Creek exploration tunnel project 60 km north of Melbourne, arguing that its concerns about the environment and noise were ignored. 

A Victorian garbage man who admitted to sharing explicit material at work has been awarded compensation after the Fair Work Commission found he was unfairly dismissed.

A judge has rejected a bid by Toyota's finance arm to require group members in two class actions to register ahead of mediation to participate in any settlement arising from mediation in the cases.

A Melbourne silk wants to set aside a default judgment in a negligence case brought by a former client, claiming he should have the chance to defend his professional reputation.