Judgment

The corporate watchdog’s first case under internal dispute resolution regulations has had mixed results, with a court finding compliance failures by Telstra Super but no under-resourcing.

A union has lost an appeal of a decision which found packaging company Opal Packaging was allowed to reintroduce drug and alcohol testing of staff under a new methodology while a union challenge was on foot.

A judge has thrown out a law firm's bid to review a costs assessment manager's decision to grant a Sydney silk more time to make a costs assessment application for services he provided almost a decade ago.

The Full Court has tossed a former Neometals employee's appeal of his failed whistleblower case, finding the company did not believe he had made a protected disclosure when making him redundant despite the company conceding that the was "somebody who frequently raised issues".

An appeals court has found the owners of a cotton farm in Queensland are liable for causing nuisance to their neighbours after building a flood mitigation levee, despite the levee being a “common and ordinary” use of the land.

Two former directors of food supplier PMFresh can't withdraw admissions in a case alleging they used company funds for personal benefit, despite a related police investigation.

A judge has ruled that lender Monland can recover a $39 million debt against the director of a property developer whose Hawthorn project encountered “severe difficulties”.

A judge has tossed a suit seeking to recover a $1 million deposit on a $20.7 million agreement to purchase the former John Adjemis-owned Hotel Diplomat in Potts Point, after the deal fell through over concerns about mold and water ingress.

A Rawson Group unit has successfully argued that it was entitled to rescind an option deed to buy land in the Southern Highlands of NSW after the soil was classified as a “problem” that posed real risks of increased building costs.

The owners corporation of a luxury apartment block in Sydney’s North Shore have been awarded $7.8 million in a summary judgment ruling after developer Lotus Fund failed to put on more than bare denials.