Gavin Handran

An appeals court has found the owners of a cotton farm in Queensland are liable for causing nuisance to their neighbours after building a flood mitigation levee, despite the levee being a “common and ordinary” use of the land.

A judge has remarked that the counsel fee rate guide is now 13 years out of date and no longer serves its purpose, in a ruling ordering $1.5 million in costs against Golden Eagle Property Group.

A judge has rejected amendments based on "buried" documents by developer Golden Eagle Property Group, in a protracted case by the receiver of parent company GGPG. 

A construction project superintendent who revised down costs previously paid to the builder contracted on the Shenton Quarter development in Perth acted outside the terms of the contract, a court has found.

A long-time client of a former Holding Redlich partner has been granted a permanent injunction restraining the lawyer from acting against it in proceedings over a Queensland residential development.

Billionaire Clive Palmer has reached a deal to end his many legal woes with villa owners at the shuttered Palmer Coolum Resort in Queensland, a month after his $21 million settlement offer was rejected.

An offer by billionaire Clive Palmer to pay $21 million for all remaining shares in villas at the Palmer Coolum Resort in Queensland and drop 14 lawsuits over resort ownership has been rejected by villa owners.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has attacked a class action by timeshare owners of the ill-fated Palmer Coolum Resort on two fronts, arguing that a special levy to fund the action breached the Corporations Act and seeking to strike out significant portions of the case.

The Queensland Supreme Court judge has refused to transfer proceedings by villa owners against Clive Palmer's abandoned Sunshine Coast resort to the Federal Court, but has also rejected a separate bid by Palmer to shut down the case, which has been dormant for six years.

National Australia Bank and the director of the collapsed Walton Construction face a possible lawsuit over more than $70 million in claims after the Federal Court gave the greenlight to the appointment of a special purpose liquidator to pursue the case.