Companies

Westpac can shield reports prepared by Allens from a class action over money laundering compliance, with a judge finding they were produced predominantly in defence of AUSTRAC action that preceded the case.

A number of contractors have been added by builder Hansen Yuncken to a $14.3 million dollar lawsuit by Deakin University over alleged building defects at its Burwood campus.

A class action against Qantas has characterised the airline’s document discovery as “wholly inadequate” and is resisting a bid by the airline for six more months to produce senior management emails.

A judge has expressed worries that a class action against EY and collapsed Blue Sky Alternative Investments is “drifting” amid concerns from the defendants about "indulgent" discovery and potentially “significant” pleading changes.

Real estate returns are rebounding across all sectors, with the office sector entering a recovery cycle, led by the Sydney CBD, according to a new report from Dexus. 

A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.

The Finance Sector Union has taken Commonwealth Bank to the Fair Work Commission over the alleged "sham redundancy” of over 100 positions it says are being offshored to India in breach of an enterprise agreement.

Project management firm Donald Cant Watts Corke says Multiplex should go down with it if Monash University wins its case over the presence of alleged hazardous insulation at the college campus in Melbourne's CBD.

Auditor KPMG has hit back at a shareholder class action over water treatment business Phoslock’s alleged accounting irregularities, saying it should be completely relieved from paying damages since it acted honestly. 

Lendlease has announced its plan for a luxury apartment complex in Sydney, expected to reach an end value of $2.5 billion, after securing land overlooking Hyde Park.