Cat Fredenburgh

The holder of a mining tenement in Western Australia has succeeded in setting aside a $500,000 statutory demand by a pastoral leaseholder, with a court finding there was a genuine issue in dispute about whether the amount was owed when no mining activities were undertaken.

Melbourne Water has told a court that it may join third parties to a class action brought on behalf of retirement village residents over the flooding of the Maribyrnong River.

Real estate investment manager Charter Hall has joined forces with Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Asia to develop a 40,000sqm logistics hub in Melbourne's west.

A former TechnologyOne executive has appealed a judge's finding that he was lawfully terminated, after the matter was remitted following an appeals court decision that tossed his $5.2 million damages win.

Cbus has reportedly agreed to acquire all the units in Lendlease's $2 billion shopping centre fund, which includes some of the country's largest mall assets.

A leading M&A lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills has made the jump to Ashurst, bolstering the firm's corporate offering. 

Fixed income specialist FIIG Securities has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for cybersecurity failures which led to a cyberattack that exposed the data of 18,000 clients, the first penalty of its kind secured by ASIC.

The defendants in Lendlease's lawsuit over combustible cladding used on its $107 million EXO residential apartment block in Melbourne's Docklands have pointed the finger at one another six months out from trial in the long-running proceedings.

The eSafety Commissioner has informed Roblox that it will test compliance commitments the online gaming company made last year, amid ongoing concerns about child exploitation on the platform. 

Aristocrat has fended off the Commissioner of Patents' challenge to a finding that its Lightning Link poker machine is capable of being patented, with the High Court declining to weigh in on the patent for a second time.