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Maurice Blackburn mulls expanding group in Hyundai, Kia class actions
Class Actions 2025-09-19 11:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Maurice Blackburn has proposed expanding the group definition in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over allegedly defective anti-lock braking systems after winning a carriage fight against a proceeding that included additional recalls in its group membership. 

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Telegram wins more time to prep appeal of $1M eSafety fine
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-09-19 11:44 pm By Sam Matthews

Encrypted messaging app Telegram has won its bid to delay the hearing of its challenge to a $1 million fine from the eSafety Commissioner, after complaining about a “document dump” from the regulator. 

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ANZ conduct ‘remarkable’, judge says after ALAMMC director allegedly withdraws frozen funds
Construction 2025-09-22 11:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has ordered ANZ to explain itself after hearing the director of a Gold Coast property developer under investigation withdrew $112,000 from a bank account subject to freezing orders.

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Fairfield developer wins spat over $3M payment claim
Construction 2025-09-22 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A developer has won an injunction to stop a builder from enforcing an adjudication decision in a dispute over a $3 million payment claim, with a judge finding it would be an abuse of process to make the developer pay.

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Acciona wants to move Veolia’s suit over Kwinana waste-to-energy plant
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-09-19 11:45 pm By Christine Caulfield

As it battles for ACCC approval to buy the East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia, infrastructure giant Acciona faces litigation by waste management firm Veolia over the state’s other major plant.

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TPG can’t challenge SOPA win for Kenik over $14M Taringa Coles
Construction 2025-09-19 11:13 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A court has rejected a property developer’s bid to challenge a payment claim decision that found in favour of collapsed builder Kenik, the contractor on a $14 million Coles and Liquorland in Taringa.

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SMEC, Jacobs joined by Acciona to Hunter Valley bus crash class action
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-09-19 11:04 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Acciona has filed cross-claims against engineering firms SMEC and Jacobs Group after being joined to a class action over a deadly bus accident in NSW’s Hunter Valley.

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Pauline Hanson to fight credit findings in discrimination appeal
Appeals 2025-09-18 11:44 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson will dispute adverse credit findings made against her as part of her appeal of a judgment in a racial discrimination case by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.

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Jackpot for digital innovation as Full Court broadens test for what is patentable
Analysis 2025-09-17 11:26 pm By Christine Caulfield

It faced defeat at the Full Federal Court and encountered a deadlocked High Court, still Aristocrat persisted in its seven-year fight to get patent protection for the popular Lightning Link poker machine. The long game paid off.

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Judge sets aside $1.5M SOPA adjudication over lux Gold Coast development
Construction 2025-09-18 11:33 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

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.

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