James Hastie

Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.

A judge has found there is a genuine dispute over an agreement for the recommissioning of Australian Pacific Coal's Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley and refused to toss a suit alleging its ex-CEO breached her duty by entering into the agreement. 

A judge has set aside an adjudicator’s decision that the head contractor for a luxury Gold Coast tower owes fitout company Starline $1.5 million, finding the subcontractor had obtained a District Court judgment over the same project.

A theme park manufacturer contracted by Dreamworld to undertake $5 million in works has won a challenge to an adjudicator’s decision that found a payment claim was invalid because the company didn't have a building licence.

A judge has vacated an upcoming trial date in a data scraping case against US-based CoreLogic to allow the analytics company more time to respond to a "weighty" report by a forensic accountant.

US-based analytics company CoreLogic has lost its bid for further particulars in building information provider BCI’s case alleging it scraped content from its LeadManager platform to improve a competing product and procure customers. 

A court has ruled that labour hire firm CoreStaff cannot rely on its professional indemnity insurance to cover judgment against it in an employment class action alleging itmisled workers who relocated from Papua New Guinea to Australia for work.