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Loss of affordable housing ‘not fatal’ to Annandale development: court
Thomson Geer 2025-11-11 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Sydney developer has won a dispute with the Inner West Council over its Annandale housing project application, despite a court finding it would cause a loss of affordable housing. 

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Billboard company Manboom loses trespass case against Jemena Gas
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-11-11 11:36 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.

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Skycity can’t shut down case alleging discrimination against new dad
Employment 2025-11-10 1:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

SkyCity has lost its bid to dismiss a claim by a former employee who alleges he was discriminated against because he was a parent of a newborn child and dismissed because he made whistleblower reports. 

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Development consent for Sydney Airport hotel ‘in force’: NCAT
Construction 2025-11-10 11:53 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not ‘in force’.

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Structural design firm found guilty over ‘potentially catastrophic’ wall collapse at Geocon site
Construction 2025-11-07 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A defunct design firm has been found guilty of health and safety violations after a shoring wall fell down at a Geocon construction site in Canberra, with a magistrate saying the collapse could have caused multiple deaths. 

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Law firm client loses High Court case over interest on repaid fees
Business of Law 2025-11-05 11:22 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has dismissed a case by a law firm client who claimed he was entitled under the law of restitution to $1.4 million in interest on a $900,000 sum his lawyers repaid in a fight about legal fees.

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Gillis Delaney dodges third-party costs bid in IP dispute
Intellectual Property 2025-11-04 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Law firm Gillis Delaney has defeated a bid for third-party costs by a warehouse management software company that was named in an intellectual property dispute, with a judge rejecting claims the firm was not authorised to act and acted unreasonably. 

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ATO dealt major blow in $948M capital gains dispute with YTL Power
Tax 2025-11-04 11:04 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The tax commissioner has suffered a major loss in a dispute with Malaysian power company YTL Power over a $948 million capital gain from the sale of its stake in South Australia-based ElectraNet in 2022.

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Qld developer of beachfront high-rise knocks back $10M ruling for builder
Construction 2025-11-05 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An adjudicator’s decision awarding $10 million to a builder on Queensland developer Heran Group’s high-rise luxury apartment building in Main Beach lacked procedural fairness after he went outside the parties’ submissions, a judge has found. 

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Builder loses appeal in spat with RW Capital over $26M Brookvale project
Appeals 2025-11-05 11:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A builder has lost an appeal arguing that a RW Capital unit was bound by an alleged contract to develop land in northern Sydney, said to be worth $25.75 million, after the trial judge found the claim was “doomed to fail”.

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