Michael Sims

Engineering firm Wood & Grieve has failed to convince a judge to compel CPB Contractors to provide it with further and better particulars in a dispute over work on Perth's Elizabeth Quay redevelopment.

Two units of builder BGC have won a stay of building remedy orders to re-pipe homes fitted with faulty Iplex piping while they appeal the orders, but have lost a bid to adjourn the appeals.

Liquidators of collapsed Forge Group are close to settling their insider trading case against engineering and construction company Clough and former directors, a court has heard on what was to be the first day of trial.

Western Power, Ventia, and a property owner found jointly liable for loss arising from the Parkerville bushfire are equally liable to each other for any costs orders in favour of the plaintiffs in the case, after a judge found he could not disturb existing costs orders in a new proceeding.

Directors of engineering company Clough can't set eyes on evidence in support of a successful examination bid by Forge's liquidator, two months before trial in the liquidator's insider trading case.

Dutch paint company AkzoNobel has lost a mid-trial bid to inspect instructions given by Allen & Overy to experts who tested its allegedly unsuitable protective coating used on pipework on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project. 

An appeals court has knocked back builder Hanssen’s attempt to dodge a decade-old dispute over repairs to one of its residential buildings on constitutional grounds, saying the Perth company's argument would precipitate an “extraordinary” result if accepted.

A judge has left open the question of whether a line of authority relating to the materiality of information under the continuous disclosure regime could be relevant to a stoush between collapsed engineering firm Forge Group and Clough Group, saying the decisions may apply to cases alleging breaches of the insider trading provisions of the Corporations Act.

Equitable contribution by Western Power, Ventia and a property owner found jointly liable for the same loss resulting from the Parkerville bushfire in WA must be mathematically equal regardless of how the liability was apportioned, a judge has found.

Thiess has defeated a lawsuit by a rock supplier seeking $9.3 million in damages for alleged delays by the mining services giant in receiving materials for work on Chevron’s Wheatstone natural gas hub.