New lawsuit

Developer Techin MBS has filed a lawsuit against Maddocks, claiming the law firm is liable for negligence if a contract of sale for a penthouse in Toorak with multi-millionaire Scott Shearman is not found to be binding.

A former head of trading technology at the ASX has filed a lawsuit claiming he was axed after he raised concerns about insufficient resources to operate the market properly, including in relation to the exchange's CHESS replacement project.

Proval Renewables has filed a lawsuit against renewables company May Brothers Holdings, seeking to hold it to an agreement to make commission payments of $4.5 million on a $50 million solar project.

Shine Lawyers has been hit with a negligence suit by a former client who says he lost the chance to recover damages in a personal injury case after the firm sued the wrong party.

Japan-based Mitsui has sued Esso Australia and Woodside Energy, its partners in the Kipper gas field in the Bass Strait, disputing their claims that it owes $298 million in taxes and alleging it overpaid fees to the tune of $20.3 million. 

The ACCC has taken Sydney's four largest mobile crane companies and four of their senior executives to court for allegedly engaging in cartel conduct by agreeing not to supply cranes to certain customers or construction sites.

Builder Icon has taken insurers Chubb and Mitsui Sumimoto to court, arguing it is entitled to claim $21 million for the costs of rectifying Sydney's Opal Tower development.

The ACCC has accused four produce suppliers and three senior executives of fixing prices on vegetables supplied to discount grocery chain Aldi over a six-year period.

Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, have launched the first privacy suit of its kind over two Herald Sun articles that speculated about whether their relationship began when Brittany was underage.

A supplier of power tools has taken Melbourne Airport's owner to court alleging a warehouse it constructed on leased premises at the airport's business park was defective and incapable of being occupied.