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$40M suit against real estate investors spiked amid HK criminal case
Real Estate 2026-01-30 11:18 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Lawsuits against a Chinese real estate investor and his mother involving transactions linked to Sam Fayad’s Dyldam Group have been paused pending criminal proceedings against the pair in Hong Kong.

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Plus500 can’t shut down class action in favour of arbitration
Class Actions 2025-12-17 11:35 pm By Sam Matthews

Plus500 has lost its bid to permanently stay a class action by investors who lost money trading in highly leveraged financial products, with a court finding that the arbitration clause relied on by the online trader was unfair and void.

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Prefab home builder takes owners to High Court after $500K judgment
Real Estate 2025-10-13 3:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

A prefab home builder has filed an application with the High Court after it was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.

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AMP to pay $120M to settle superannuation class action
Class Actions 2025-09-15 10:41 am By Cat Fredenburgh

AMP has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a class action stemming from the banking royal commission which accused it of overcharging millions of superannuation members over a 12-year period.

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Couple misled by NSW builder over cladding wins $500K
Construction 2025-09-12 11:18 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

In the final chapter of a years-long fight, an appeals court has ordered a NSW prefab home builder to pay almost $500,000 in damages after finding it engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.

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Developer wins bid to drop out of cladding class action, one year after trial
Class Actions 2025-09-10 1:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The developer of a tower in Mascot which is said to contain combustible cladding can opt out of a class action against 3A Composites and Halifax to bring its own claim for $15 million.

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Developer can exit cladding class action to bring $15M case against Halifax
Construction 2025-09-10 2:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

Sydney developer Tiptell has won its bid to exit a combustible cladding class action against 3A Composites and Halifax to bring its own claim for $15 million.

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Developer wants to exit cladding class action to bring own case against Halifax
Construction 2025-08-26 11:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

A Sydney developer has launched a bid to opt out as a group member of a combustible cladding class action against 3A Composites and Halifax to bring its own “copy” of the case.

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