A group of insurers can’t join Northwest Rail Link joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a suit by CPB Contractors and John Holland over a $100 million policy, with a judge saying the joint venture’s interests in the case are commercial rather than legal.
Northwest Rail Link builders CPB Contractors and John Holland are pushing back against a bid by several insurers to join joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a coverage spat over a $100 million policy.
Four group members in a franchisee class action against 7-Eleven that settled for $98 million in 2022 are seeking court review of the amounts they were awarded under the settlement scheme.
A judge has struck out builder CPB Contractor’s “clearly untenable” claim against Transport for NSW for $63 million in delay costs for work on the Pacific Highway upgrade.
Transport for NSW has accused a former contractor of multiplying claims for delayed or disrupted work days by six or seven times in a $63 million dispute.
The Commonwealth is locked in a fight with a class action on behalf of Navy technicians over whether a referee’s report on damages mistakenly failed to include pre-judgment interest. The class action, brought in 2016 on behalf of 290 Navy marine technicians, seeks damages for the loss of income that resulted from the Navy’s breach…
In a fight over damages owed to sailors in a class action against the Defence Department, a judge has said the Commonwealth can’t argue certain group members failed to mitigate their losses.
Whitehaven Coal has struck back at a class action led by the father of famed mining investor Nathan Tinkler, calling the claims that it failed to fulfil an implied term of a $150 million share subscription from 2012 “fanciful”.
Shareholders in Whitehaven Coal who helped inject $150 million of capital during a 2012 merger are “trapped” after the ASX-listed coal producer failed to abide by its side of the deal, a class action funded by mining investor Nathan Tinkler has alleged on the first day of trial.
Trial in a five-year-old class action against Whitehaven Coal will proceed without further delay despite the plaintiff’s late bid to tender an expert report, with a judge finding no extraordinary reason to push off the hearing date any longer.