The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower.
The corporate regulator has launched an inquiry into the Australian Securities Exchange following “repeated and serious failures”, while discontinuing its investigation into a one-day technical failure in December 2024.
Collapsed Roberts Co Victoria will oppose a creditor’s bid for an extension in a case seeking to wind up the construction company, claiming it is “effectively on death row” and suffering reputational damage.
The Australian Football League and Geelong Football Club have brought applications seeking to strip a case over on-field concussions of class action status.
A judge has expressed doubt about the need for expert evidence in class actions against McDonald’s and KFC over their alleged failure to give workers rest breaks, saying “I imagine if you’re a worker, you’d like a rest”.
Red Bull has won its opposition to a Chinese beverage manufacturer’s bid to register ‘SeaBull’ as a trade mark for non-alocoholic drinks, with an IP Australia delegate finding the mark is deceptively similar to Red Bull’s.
A new statutory tort targeting serious invasions of privacy came into effect on Tuesday, raising new risks for companies, including publishers.
An appeals court has dismissed a law firm’s challenge to a ruling that cut $1.14 million of its fees from a settled class action against retirement home operator Aveo, noting the “inordinate delay” in preparing key evidence. The class action, launched in September 2017 on behalf of residents at Aveo’s retirement villages, settled for $11…
A judge has sent to the Full Federal Court Medibank’s fight to shield Deloitte reports into a data breach, raising concerns about how evidence from a solicitor and the health insurer’s inhouse lawyer was previously treated.
A judge has dismissed a class action applicant’s claim that he was underpaid as a University of Sydney postgraduate student, but left for another day the question of whether the court should also make orders binding group members.