Victoria

A judge has allowed a prison inmate in Victoria to file a class action over alleged price gouging for products sold in the prison shop, but warned it was unlikely that he will be able to represent the 400 proposed group members.

Victoria's decision to cap counsel fees for government work has been slammed by the Bar's president as "unfairly and disproportionately" affecting women barristers.

A co-founder of collapsed property development group Steller has argued in the High Court it is unfair to bind him to a previous owner’s acquiescence to the use of a driveway by his prominent Mornington Peninsula neighbour.

Property developer Casey Group is weighing a cross-claim against Rossdale Golf Club in response to proceedings launched by Interpac unit Brencorp, which alleges Casey devised an "underhand deal" to block its acquisition of the southeast Melbourne club.

ASX-listed alternative asset manager HMC Capital has acquired the Coburns Central shopping centre in Melbourne's west for $49 million.

The director of a builder behind an apartment block in Melbourne's Caulfield South has won a challenge to a decision adding him as a respondent in a defects case brought by the development's owners corporation.

Law firm Mills Oakley is seeking summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging it gave negligent advice about demolishing an inherited property, which allegedly resulted in the loss of a capital gains tax exemption.

Holding Redlich has hired six new lawyers, including two partners, to bolster its dispute resolution practice in Melbourne and Brisbane.

The defunct developer behind the planned Pentridge Village project in Melbourne can't defer costs in failed proceedings against the project's financiers, despite a foreshadowed new suit against them. 

A judge won't order expert mathematical evidence in a suit against Monash University over alleged unpaid bed rent, saying the calculations could be done by someone in Year 7.