Roshan Chaile

A class action by property owners near a GrainCorp factory in rural Victoria has defeated the company's bid for security for costs, with a judge finding the orders would "stultify" the proceedings.

A class action by property owners near a GrainCorp factory in rural Victoria has defeated the company's bid for security for costs, with a judge finding the orders would stultify the proceedings.

The Victorian planning minister has told the High Court that IGA can't bring a lawsuit over a local council amendment allowing up to four supermarkets in the town of Shepparton, saying the case does raise a jurisdictional error. 

The High Court has taken up an appeal by the Victorian planning minister in a row with IGA that seeks guidance on the jurisdictional reach of the state Supreme Court in planning disputes.

The purchaser of Frankston’s $115 million Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club has lost a summary dismissal bid, with the court calling out its “contrariness” as stymieing the case's progress without real cause. 

The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction is personally liable for the $3.2 million in costs of rectification work on external cladding at an apartment complex in southeast Melbourne, a judge has found.

The director of collapsed builder Shangri-La Construction wants to expand his defence in a suit over allegedly flammable cladding installed in a Melbourne building to argue a funding agreement with an owners corporation was not valid because nearly a quarter of owners abstained or voted against it.

The High Court has been asked to clarify the jurisdictional reach of the Victoria Supreme Court to hear planning disputes, in a spat between the state and supermarket operator IGA.

IGA can pursue its Victoria Supreme Court challenge to a decision allowing up to four supermarkets to operate in Shepparton, with an appeal bench finding the court can review planning decisions for jurisdictional error.

The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction has been hit with self-executing orders to file evidence in Victoria's case over alleged combustible cladding on a Melbourne building, after unexplained delays.