Construction

A judge presiding over a class action against Fletcher Building has clarified his relationship with the director of a litigation funder which is the basis of a recusal bid.

The co-owners of Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have won their bid for a preliminary trial in a suit against Probuild Constructions and several engineering companies over $200 million in alleged structural defects.

Logistics giant Qube has partially prevailed in setting aside amounts Martinus Rail claimed it was owed under a contract for work at an intermodal freight terminal in Moorebank, NSW.

A judge has called out the “combative correspondence” between solicitors at Corrs Chambers and another law firm in a construction defects suit.

Evidence sought by Fletcher Building from a judge's former law firm as part of the construction company's recusal bid is inadmissible, a court has ruled.

HFW has secured the expertise of a construction disputes specialist, set to join its Perth office in November from Clifford Chance. 

INPEX has won a bid to cross-examine AkzoNobel's solicitors about discovery at the end of an 11-week trial over allegedly defective paint used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project. 

The company behind an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford, NSW can't lift a stay on a $37 million judgment it won against the Australian unit of China's Shanxi Construction Group.

A judge is concerned to manage prejudice to Clarence Property amid a barrage of evidence filed by an environmental group in its challenge to a Brunswick Heads development.