Events

A judge has ruled in favour of a funder who unknowingly agreed not to claim ownership over a council refund worth $800,000, the court finding that the developer’s director intended to claim the refund without the funder’s knowledge. 

An environmental group that plans to appeal its failed challenge to a Brunswick Heads development has launched a bid to stop slashing works at the site.

The applicant in a failed class action against former NAB super fund trustee NULIS Nominees over $165 million in conflicted remuneration has won High Court leave to challenge the dismissal of his case.

The High Court has declined to hear social media app Giggle for Girls' appeal seeking to reverse a finding that it committed direct discrimination on the basis of gender identity by excluding a transgender woman from its platform.

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum has dropped a swathe of claims, including allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct, as it seeks to amend its case for the tenth time in four years.

The High Court has declined Tabcorp's special leave application seeking to overturn a ruling that found it was not entitled to a $1.49 billion tax deduction for loss when a licence with the state of Victoria expired in 2012.

The High Court won't hear Russells' bid to overturn a decision which found it could not rely on privileged communications to defend itself against allegations of incompetence from former client Meadowbrook Golf Course.  

A judge has ordered Pacific Shopping Centres unit Wadren to hand over photos of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre car park from 2017 and 2018 to co-owner QIC Werribee in a dispute over alleged structural defects. 

A judge has tossed a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, finding it did not have binding agreements to buy 500,000 metric tonnes of coal annually from two NSW coal miners controlled by Jindal Steel.

The developer behind a Shellharbour mixed-use development has defeated a suit seeking to make him personally repay a company debt, in a dispute a judge called a “cautionary tale” about side deals.