Industries

Plans to transform the site of the former VicRoads in Kew have progressed, with four developers invited by the Victorian government to put forward development proposals, including Lendlease and Mirvac.

A judge has rejected a “finely balanced” application to transfer a court fight between Waratah Engineering and Wollongong Resources over mining equipment contracts to New South Wales.

Mastercard has lost its claim for legal professional privilege over communications between its chief financial officer in Singapore and in-house counsel about merchant agreements the ACCC alleges were anti-competitive. 

Atanaskovic Hartnell is appealing a decision barring the law firm from enforcing a costs judgment against a company of media mogul Bruce Gordon and quashing a garnishee order directed at Nine.

An appeals court has dismissed BlueScope Steel's challenge to a decision finding it engaged in attempted price-fixing and was on the hook for a record $57.5 million penalty.

A judge has approved a 33 per cent group costs order in a class action against Sportsbet, saying the relatively high rate was justified by the risks of running the “relatively novel case", which seeks repayment of gambling losses stemming from allegedly unlawful services.

An ex-Keystone director has raised concerns that expanding a freezing order over his assets would impact his ability to pay his solicitors at law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

A court has ordered the de facto director of failed construction company Trinco to pay its liquidator $10 million, finding that the builder had been trading while insolvent since 2018.

Ray White has secured a stay of examinations of its employees, as a creditor of FSM Development investigates claims the real estate agency's loan agreement with the collapsed Sydney developer was uncommercial.

Woolnorth Renewables has won approval for its 400-megawatt wind farm in Victoria's south-west, the third-largest wind project approved by the state in the past decade.