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$750M climate class action against Murray Darling Basin Authority heads to trial
Class Actions 2025-07-11 11:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A long-running class action against the Murray Darling Basin Authority over alleged negligent water management, including the failure to consider the impacts of climate change, will head to trial next month, just weeks after the court issues judgment in another closely watched climate class action. 

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‘Corporate puffery’: Enviro group attacks Woodside plan for $16.5B Scarborough project
Sophie Molyneux 2025-07-14 11:05 pm By Andy Sidler

Environmental group Doctors for the Environment has slammed Woodside claim that its $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project will have a “de minimus” environmental impact and argues the company’s plan does not allow the regulator to assess its real impact. 

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PE fund Goldstone appeals ruling on unfair sacking of director
Appeals 2025-07-11 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A private equity fund is challenging a ruling that it acted in an “oppressive” and “unfairly prejudicial” way towards its managing director, who a judge found was invalidly sacked for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son. 

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Hyde Park developer, RSL settle $95M payment dispute
Construction 2025-07-14 2:39 pm By Andy Sidler

The prospective developer of the Hyde Park Inn in Sydney has dropped its appeal of a decision which disallowed it from delaying a $95 million payment to the NSW Returned Service League.

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Full Court asked to rule on reasonableness of financial advisors’ non-competes
Appeals 2025-07-11 11:57 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Two former employees of financial services firm Monarch Advisory have appealed a ruling that awarded their former employer $270,000 in damages after they were found to have breached a non-compete agreement.

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Payday lenders BSF, Cigno lose appeal in ASIC case
Financial Services 2025-07-10 10:07 am By Cindy Cameronne

Payday lenders BSF Solutions and Cigno have lost an appeal in action by ASIC alleging they engaged in unlicensed credit activity and charged prohibited fees, in the case’s second run up to the Full Federal Court.

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Mayfair’s conduct ‘cannot be laid at the door of any lawyers’: judge
ASIC 2025-07-10 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has criticised Mayfair Group’s “directing mind” James Mawhinney in a do-over of ASIC’s case over notes tied to Mission Beach properties, saying “vociferous and continuous efforts” to blame others, including lawyers, for investor losses did not reflect well on him.

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Fight over Machiavelli restaurant matriarch’s will leads to ‘outrageous’ legal costs
Estates 2025-07-11 11:57 pm By Christine Caulfield

Following the death of the 85-year old founder of famed Machiavelli Ristorante in Sydney, siblings Paola Toppi and Walter Toppi have racked up almost $1 million in legal costs fighting over the $2 million estate.

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ASIC wins $3.5M penalty over funeral insurer’s ‘Aboriginal owned’ claims
Insurance 2025-07-10 11:30 pm By Andy Sidler

Funeral insurer ACBF has been hit with a $3.5 million penalty for “callous” and “egregious” misrepresentations to Indigenous customers that its business was Aboriginal owned or managed.

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‘Unacceptable’: Court says Sydney can’t afford loss of Paddington boarding house
Real Estate 2025-07-11 11:56 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A court has described a plan to demolish a 32-room boarding house for the construction of four luxury residences in Paddington as an “unacceptable loss” of affordable housing in inner-city Sydney.

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