Barristers

Property developer Castleway has succeeded in its challenge to a ruling limiting its payment entitlements under a development agreement with TPC Group.

Roberts Construction has won indemnity costs against a company that unsuccessfully pursued a winding up application against it, as well as a personal costs order against its director.

The judge overseeing a case by the liquidators of real estate investment firm Global Capital Property Fund won't allow two GCPF directors to appear on behalf of related companies named in the case, saying they would not be able to act “independently and objectively”.

An April trial date in a high-stakes IP fight between real estate data company BCI and US analytics firm CoreLogic over alleged data scraping is in danger amid a fight about accounting evidence.

An oversight in a trade secrets fight between telcos SPN and Pennytel means the matter was never formally dismissed, making Pennytel's appeal premature in a set of circumstances a judge has described as a "joke". 

The former manager of biscuits and cookies at Coles has faced cross-examination by the ACCC over marking Arnott’s Shapes with a 'Down Down' discount, despite the price being 50 cents less four weeks prior. 

A judge has found that an ICC arbitration brought by Downer against Squadron Energy and a fellow contractor on the Murra Warra wind farm in Victoria was not validly commenced, upholding a hybrid arbitration clause in their agreement.

X Corp can't challenge a finding that it must face a complaint of religious vilification in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, with an appeal tribunal saying a member was not wrong to draw on defamation and consumer case law.

A judge has given the administrator for billionaire Sanjeev Gupta's Tahmoor Coal two more weeks to prove that creditors would be better off under a sale process than a liquidation. 

Two units of Queensland real estate firm Coronis have lost a fight with the tax office over service fee deductions claimed for payments to related entities for the use of the Coronis trade mark, among other trust assets.