Rob Anderson

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost its bid to add a new claim to its case against builder Devine, with a judge saying the developer was attempting to tell a “fundamentally different story” to the existing case, weeks out from trial.

A Queensland property owner whose Morton Bay land was slated to be acquired by the council can recover more than just legal costs under the state's land acquisiton law, an appeals court has found.

A court has found that United Petroleum is not bound by the terms of a signed lease offer sent to a neighbouring Gold Coast pharmacy operator, ruling the company’s property consultant had no authority to negotiate or enter into a new lease on its behalf. 

A judge has ordered Seven West-owned publication The West Australian to pay a former public servant $180,000 in damages over an article about an allegation of fraud that had “a sensationalist overtone”.

The minority shareholder in Sydney restaurant Machiavelli Ristorante Italiano has lost his bid to review the company books in anticipation of bringing a second winding up application, after the relationship between the restaurant's co-owners broke down.

Accounting firm Ernst & Young is seeking to throw out a tax partner’s lawsuit alleging he remains in the partnership despite an attempt to remove him, arguing the dispute had to be determined through confidential arbitration. 

A group of Lloyd’s underwriters are off the hook for financial services company EP Financial Services' costs in an lawsuit over allegedly negligent financial advice, after an appeals court found the exclusions under the policy were valid.

A former director of sandalwood producer Quintis, who is suing the company's top brass over statements made to the corporate regulator, has won unrestricted access to legal advice the executives sought to keep a lid on.

A judge has partially struck out mining magnate Clive Palmer’s defence to WA Premier Mark McGowan’s defamation claim over statements which allegedly accused the premier of corruption, abusing his position and lying about the decision to close the state’s borders at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.

Billionaire Clive Palmer cannot defend the truth of alleged defamatory imputations that Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan tried to "cover up" criminal acts and was "corrupt", the premier's barrister has told the court.