Gareth Beacham

The developer of a North Ipswich residential estate has lost its appeal against orders that it pay over $250,000 in commissions to a real estate project marketing company hired to facilitate the sale of lots.

The government can't strike out key claims from a Queensland local council's suit over PFAS contamination allegedly caused by its activities at an aviation centre, with a judge rejecting arguments about the impermissibility of an aggregated pleading of knowledge.

A judge has allowed a shareholder class action over the collapse of asset manager Blue Sky to bring insider trading claims against several short sellers, as well as brokers Credit Suisse and Argonaut Securities. 

York Property has lost an appeal in a dispute with builder Tomkins over a payment claim for work on a Gold Coast high-rise, with the appeals court declining to set aside an adjudicator's decision that was later cut down to $12.7 million. 

A luxury Hamilton Island resort has lost its bid to vary the form of security ordered last year in its $15 million suit over allegedly defective rectification works completed in the wake of Cyclone Debbie. 

A developer has won an extension of a freeze on $25 million held in escrow in its dispute with a builder over payment claims for a Main Beach high-rise, after it filed an appeal.

A judge has found a $3.7 million error by an adjudicator in a dispute over a $43 million payment claim for work on an apartment complex in Queensland’s Main Beach showed a failure to properly consider the evidence and submissions.

A judge has rejected Lendlease’s argument that Queensland building legislation does not apply to cross-border works carried out at Gold Coast Airport, saying the builder’s construction of the law would require a “bolt-by-bolt” analysis of construction work.

A judge has found that penalty privilege cannot be used to avoid the production of books under the Corporation Act.