Construction

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 grand-niece of billiards champion Walter Lindrum has won more time to file submissions in her dispute against a Time & Place subsidiary over its redevelopment of the historic Hotel Lindrum into a 27-storey commercial tower.

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. 

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.

Funds manager 360 Capital is moving quickly to take control of its investments affected by the $3.4 billion collapse of construction firm Bathla. 

Perth Airport will pay United Petroleum $8.7 million after the company built a larger petrol station on the basis of the airport's representations that the Qantas terminal would be relocated. 

An architecture firm can maintain its proportionate liability defence in a defects lawsuit over the construction of an aged care facility in Box Hill, with a judge finding it has an arguable case. 

A cabinet maker has been ordered to pay $108,000 in security in a $36 million negligence suit against two law practices who advised on a dispute with a subcontractor over work at La Trobe University.

A judge has signed off on a partial settlement in a class action brought by the owners of lots in an allegedly shoddy townhouse development in Sydney.