Construction

A judge has approved a bid to drop claims on behalf of 340 property owners in a class action against Sydney developer Mulpha over a 683-lot development in Glenmore Park. 

The owners corporation at a mixed use development on the lower north shore of Sydney has lost an appeal seeking work orders against builder Ceerose and developer Zone Q, after partially winning its initial case.

Optus has won an appeal against a council's decision to refuse its plan to build a telecommunications tower in Killcare Heights on NSW's Central Coast.

BESIX Watpac has been selected as the preferred contractor to build the Macquarie Point Stadium in Hobart, a month after being selected to build a 63,000-seat stadium in Brisbane for the 2032 Olympic Games.

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have sought to declass a group proceeding over waste from the Wittenoom asbestos mines, after the WA government argued claims predating the Federal Court’s class action regime were barred. 

A judge has held that the former environment minister's finding that part of the McPhillamy's gold mine was heritage protected was invalid. 

A contradictor has urged a judge to reject an $18 million settlement in a class action over sinking homes, saying that owners' claims that were excluded had not been fully investigated.

The director of a builder behind an apartment block in Melbourne's Caulfield South has won a challenge to a decision adding him as a respondent in a defects case brought by the development's owners corporation.

A Victorian developer seeking to recover $6.5 million from the builder on a Gardenvale residential project has lost its bid to avoid paying security, with an appeals court finding there was a risk it could not meet an adverse costs order.

A judge has allowed a barrister who successfully defended a Perth gym in nuisance proceedings by a hospital to be paid 30 per cent above the scale rate, citing the matter's complexity and high stakes and the experience of opposing counsel.