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Damages owed to a millionaire couple by JD Group over a "deliberately misleading" rendering of a $9.58 million apartment in South Yarra, Melbourne will be put on ice pending the outcome of the property developer's appeal.
Property developer JD Group will have to pay damages to a Melbourne couple after a judge found the company’s artistic renderings of a $9.58 million South Yarra apartment were “deliberately misleading”.
Global firm Clifford Chance has lured a Corrs Chambers Westgarth litigation partner to meet the increased demand for projects expertise stemming from pandemic-related construction disputes.
Concrete repair company Vector Corrosion Technologies has lost its bid for ownership of a concrete treatment patent held by three former employees who jumped ship, with a court finding the trio invented the technology after leaving Vector.
A bid by the liquidators of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group for Lendlease to pay back funds it withdrew under bank guarantees is “untenable” and “misconceived”, a court has heard in a $68 million case that also targets Multiplex, Grocon and John Holland.
A court has found that flying flags associated with the Eureka Rebellion or displaying material bearing union mottos and indicia at construction sites contravenes the Building Code.
Another fight over privilege may be on the cards in a shareholder class action over the collapse of the Hastie Group, with Deloitte flagging its partners may claim privilege over certain parts of the accounting giant's evidence.
Administrators for building giant ProBuild have won more time to examine its assets as they try to avoid the "nightmarish prospect" of costly delays to the company's projects.
Judgments shooting down a class closure order and nixing notice of a possible class closure order were "plainly wrong" and "infected" by faulty reasoning, the Full Federal Court has heard.
In a victory for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a judge has found that builder J Hutchinson entered into an anti-competitive agreement with the CFMEU to boycott an independent subcontractor at a construction site in Brisbane.