Barristers

Metals Manufactures has launched legal action for $33 million in damages against Fletcher Building and unit Crane Group, saying it was misled into paying $170 million for plumbing supply business Tradelink.

A group opposing a Southern Cross Gold unit’s Victorian gold tunnel project has been ordered to pay $50,000 in security, with a judge saying he was unconvinced the case is purely in the public interest. 

A court has rejected a bid to undo the state significant development status of a proposed 37-storey, 100-unit shop-top housing development in Northern Sydney.

A judge has dismissed Woodside's bid to compel three protesters who carried out a stunt involving the release of ‘stench gas’ at its office to identify other individuals involved, calling the gas giant’s suspicions "conjecture and speculation". 

A judge is not too thrilled about the ACCC's bid for details of Microsoft's defence in a suit alleging the software giant duped millions of customers into upgrading to more expensive product plans, saying "it pains me the court has to take time" to hear the application.

Italian builder Webuild has lost its bid to permanently stay a SafeWork NSW prosecution over an 2022 incident while tunnelling for the Snowy Hydro expansion that allegedly gave rise to a risk of death or serious injury to two workers.

Gas giant Woodside has hit back at claims by activist groups that the federal environment minister's department "negotiated" with the company ahead of approving a 40-year extension to its North West Shelf project.

The competition regulator has given its draft approval to Fortnite maker Epic Games and Google for their global settlement of allegations of misuse of market power by the digital giant.

Challenging the first win for shareholders in a class action, logistics company Brambles says a trial judge erred in his findings on liability as well as loss.

CS Energy wants a judge to recuse himself from hearing IG Power's $1 billion lawsuit over "catastrophic" incidents at the Callide coal-fired power station in Queensland in light of an earlier judgment in proceedings by the Australian Energy Regulator.