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Judge blasts insurers in Forge investor class action for ‘waste of everybody’s resources’
Class Actions 2019-05-29 4:27 pm By Amelia Birnie

A judge has granted discovery of up to 32,000 documents just months out from the Forge investor class action trial, as she blasted the insurance company respondents for wasting resources after they failed to comply with the court’s previous orders.

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‘No material risk’ of fire: PE cladding importer hits back at class action
Class Actions 2019-05-20 9:23 pm By Miklos Bolza

Australian distribution firm Halifax Vogel has struck back at a class action alleging it violated consumer laws with its representations regarding the quality of Alucobond cladding, denying that the cladding puts buildings and their occupants at risk of harm or death from fire.

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Hutchinson Builders resolves case against ACCC over notice to produce
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-05-10 5:04 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Private construction company Hutchinson Builders has resolved a lawsuit it brought against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission seeking to quash what it called an invalid notice to produce documents to the regulator, which has vowed to bring cases against the construction industry this year.

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Deloitte grilled after claiming partners have no right to access files from litigation room
Appeals 2019-05-06 10:07 pm By Christine Caulfield

Lawyers for Deloitte were questioned by an appeals court Monday after arguing that the accounting giant’s partners had no access to the firm’s files, stored in a locked “litigation room”, and no power to hand them over to comply with discovery orders in a shareholder class action over the collapse of client Hastie Group.

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Forge class action judge stands firm despite being warned of ‘real risk’ to trial date
Class Actions 2019-05-03 2:06 pm By Amelia Birnie

A judge has refused to contemplate delays to the long-running investor class action against defunct engineering and construction company Forge Group, as lawyers for some of the respondents warn of a “real risk” that the current trial date might need to be vacated.

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Wagners takes Boral to court in costly cement pricing dispute
Construction 2019-04-24 10:04 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Building products supplier Wagners has taken its largest cement customer, Boral, to court in a dispute over pricing, and will take a $10 million hit to its 2019 earnings as a result.

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Lendlease hit with shareholder class action over engineering business disclosures
Class Actions 2019-04-18 2:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Construction giant Lendlease has been hit with a class action over allegedly inadequate disclosures relating to its engineering and services business, which includes the NorthConnex tunnel road project in Sydney.

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Judge fines CFMMEU, official for making a stink over dirty worksite toilet
Employment 2019-04-10 11:09 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has slapped fines of $33,350 against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy union and a high-ranking official who pinned a project manager against a fence in a fight over a filthy portable toilet at a construction site in Adelaide.

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Novel challenge to IP Australia’s building patent grant dropped
Intellectual Property 2019-04-08 8:40 pm By Miklos Bolza

A case simultaneously challenging IP Australia’s decisions to accept, grant and certify an innovation patent owned by one of Australia’s biggest building product companies has been withdrawn, a court has heard.

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Court slashes record $2.5M fine against CFMMEU over two-day strike
Employment 2019-04-05 11:23 pm By Christine Caulfield

An appeals court has reimposed penalties against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, its NSW branch and nine officials for unlawful industrial action at Barangaroo, but dropped the total fine from $2.5 million to $1.7 million.

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