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Six-storey retail complex in Melbourne sold for $80.1M
Real Estate 2025-07-01 11:14 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A six-storey shopping centre in Melbourne’s CBD has been snatched up for $80.1 million by a private investor.

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iPhone class action against Apple dropped
Class Actions 2025-06-27 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has approved a bid to discontinue a class action against Apple over updates that allegedly “throttled” the performance of iPhones, after the lawyers running the case failed to secure litigation funding.

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Unfair to deprive Maurice Blackburn of higher fees in class action run with Slaters: judge
Class Actions 2025-06-24 11:44 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has OK’d a settlement in a class action against Treasury Wine Estates, along with $27 million in fees charged by Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon, after initially questioning the difference between the firms’ rates.

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Developer loses challenge to Victorian waste-to-energy plant
Construction 2025-06-24 11:15 pm By Andy Sidler

A real estate developer based in the Victorian town slated as the location for a waste-to-energy plant has lost its challenge to the proposed project.

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Acciona sues insurer Dual for $3M in defects remediation claims
Construction 2025-06-24 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An Acciona unit has sued Dual Australia, claiming the insurer is on the hook for $3 million in remediation for alleged design defects by a subcontractor on a Fulton Hogan quarry in Victoria. 

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Sportsbet can’t peek at law firm’s finances ahead of possible security fight
Class Actions 2025-06-20 11:26 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has held off on orders requiring Maurice Blackburn to turn over financial information to Sportsbet in a class action over unlawful in-play betting, saying the parties should first confer on the issue of security for costs.

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Judge hits pause on Paladin Energy class action pending carriage fight
Class Actions 2025-06-20 11:06 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has temporarily excused uranium miner Paladin Energy from providing initial discovery in a shareholder class action, as the parties wait for a competing class action to be filed. 

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West Gate tunnel engineers sue software firm
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-06-23 11:55 pm By Andy Sidler

The engineers that provided design services for Victoria’s West Gate tunnel project have sued software provider Midas, alleging it used the wrong formula to calculate stiffness in bridge designs. 

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Hotel quarantine class action wants to put on ‘impossibly different’ case, court told
Class Actions 2025-06-19 2:27 pm By Sam Matthews

The state of Victoria has sounded alarm bells about an amendment application by a class action over the COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, telling a judge it amounts to a new case with an “infinite number of permutations”.

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Monash IVF wins injunction against exec that jumped ship after embryo mix-up
Employment 2025-06-19 11:59 pm By Andy Sidler

Monash IVF has won an injunction against its former chief operating officer, who departed after the fertility company’s embryo mix-up came to light, that limits his participation in his new employer’s Australian operations.

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