Events

The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower. 

Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is digging in with his attack on a judge's findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, asking the High Court to find in his favour in a defamation case against Nine.

The High Court has rejected a special leave application from a shareholder class action against BHP asking it to clarify the correct approach to construing the group member definition.

A Western Sydney developer must make good on an agreement to buy a rezoned greenfield site in regional NSW for $70 million and pay $2.2 million in interest, a judge has found. 

ASIC has told a court that a PwC report into allegations of inaccurate coal pricing found that 12 “inconsistent” invoices issued by TerraCom resulted in a $1.15 million benefit to the company, contrary to the company's claim that the audit found no wrongdoing.

The High Court has declined coffee maker Cantarella's special leave application arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the 'Oro' trade mark, which was first used by another coffee maker.

Online mattress retailer Emma Sleep has admitted to misleading consumers about the sale price for mattresses, but a court has found its German parent company is not on the hook because its executives did not give directions to the Australian unit.

The High Court has declined a special leave application from a former HWL Ebsworth partner seeking to undo a finding that his age-related expulsion from the partnership did not run afoul of the Equal Opportunity Act.

A judge has stayed engineering firm Clough’s $54 million cross-claim against its former joint venture partner on the EnergyConnect transmission project, Elecnor, saying the claim must be sent to arbitration.

A law firm has launched a class action investigation into the standard of care at child care centres across the country, following reports of widespread failures to meet legal standards in the increasingly privatised industry.