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Owners of lux waterfront Northbridge home can’t dodge invoices by builder
Construction 2025-04-04 11:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

The owners of a luxury property in Sydney’s Northbridge owe the home’s high-end builder payment of oustanding invoices, after a judge rejected as “absurd” the couple’s construction of a special condition in their contract.

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AIA hits architect, builder with cross-claims in cladding class action
Construction 2025-04-04 2:53 pm By Andy Sidler

Insurer AIA, fresh off losing a bid to be severed from a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed in two high-rise towers in a Sydney suburb, has lobbed cross-claims at the towers’ architect and builder. 

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Clarke Energy can’t set aside $8.7M arbitration win for Territory Generation
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-04-04 11:19 pm By Andy Sidler

Power plant engineer Clarke Energy has lost a challenge to an arbitration win for NT energy provider Territory Generation for delays in construction work on two Alice Spring power facilities.

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StrongRoom AI unit warns creditors to sort out freezing orders fast
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-04-03 4:57 pm By Sam Matthews

A unit of collapsed start-up StrongRoom AI has warned creditors of its parent company that recent freezing orders need to be tweaked to allow it to continue trading, or there may be little money left to argue over. 

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AVID wins approval for 300-home Waterford development in NSW’s Hunter Valley
Real Estate 2025-04-04 11:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

AVID Residential has secured approval for a 300-lot development in Chisholm, NSW, following an appeal of a deemed refusal by the Maitland City Council.

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Brickworks settles competition suit against rival BGC
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-04-03 11:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Australia’s largest brick manufacturer Brickworks has settled a competition case brought against rival BGC, a company founded by billionaire Len Buckeridge. 

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Allianz’s $170M class action settlement OK’d, law firms to pocket $42.5M
Class Actions 2025-04-02 9:56 am By Christine Caulfield

A court has approved a $170 million settlement in a class action against Allianz, and has signed off on an order that gives the firms behind the case 25 per cent of the deal.

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ACCC loses High Court appeal in CFMEU boycott case
High Court 2025-04-02 11:57 am By Sam Matthews

In a loss for the ACCC, the High Court has found builder J Hutchinson did not arrive at an anti-competitive understanding with the CFMEU merely by yielding to a threat of industrial action.

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Zip hopes High Court buys honest concurrent use defence in high-stakes trade mark suit
Intellectual Property 2025-04-02 11:01 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Buy now, pay later giant Zip will ask the High Court to throw out a ruling that found it infringed mortgage provider Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark and barred it from using the name in Australia.

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Silk with class action, competition law chops appointed to NSW Court of Appeal
Courts 2025-04-02 3:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Sydney silk who has worked on several car defect class actions and represented Apple over claims it engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace has been appointed to the NSW Court of Appeal. 

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