Andy Sidler

Power plant engineer Clarke Energy has lost a challenge to an arbitration win for NT energy provider Territory Generation for delays in construction work on two Alice Spring power facilities.

The builder contracted to carry out expansion works at Casey Hospital in Berwick has sued its insurer for refusing to cover $4 million in damages caused by a subcontractor's delays.

Logistics company Qube can't dodge a $71 million payment to subcontractor Martinus Rail, with an appeals court finding no error in an adjudicator's finding that Qube’s payment schedule was "incomprehensible".  

Collapsed Sydney developer Dyldam has told a court that a liquidator's claim for breach of directors' duties is "hopeless" as the company was under a deed of company arrangement at the relevant time.

The fact that at least three funders are open to backing a franchisee class action against United Petroleum should doom the class action's opposition to the petrol chain's bid for $2.3 million in security, a court has heard. 

On the first day of trial in the Tax Office's case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was "risky but not illegal". 

Tamworth Regional Council has won its bid to be joined to an environmental group's appeal of the approval for the controversial Hills of Gold wind farm.

A developer has been ordered to pay Merkon $2.4 million for construction work on a Hawthorn residential building, with a court finding that the outstanding costs were still payable despite the builder having a stake in the units. 

Former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham is pushing back on Sydney MP Alex Greenwich's bid for indemnity costs, arguing that he was justified in rejecting defamation settlement offers that required an apology.