Industries

The owner of the Pullman Adelaide Hotel has partly won an appeal of a judge’s decision refusing it access to documents about the state planning commission’s approval of a student housing development next to its luxury hotel.

Starbucks has prevailed in a bid by a landlord of the coffee chain's Ripley, Queensland outlet to set aside a demand for $450,000 as part of a rent dispute.

Property developer Immerse Projects 16 has lost a fight over a proposed Gold Coast apartment tower, with a Queensland court siding with local residents, who argued the project didn't comply with height and density rules for the area.

Mirvac has sold two office towers and an adjoining car park in Brisbane’s CBD to investment manager Alceon for $124 million.

The cost estimate for Snowy 2.0 has blown out to $22.2 billion, with the timeline for completing the for the complex infrastructure project  pushed out to 2029.

A judge has refused a bid by fund manager Blue Sky for an extension in a shareholder class action, saying the amount of costs wasted in the case by “unreasonable positions being taken” was "astounding".

Superannuation trustee Macquarie says a class action over the collapse of the Shield investor fund needs to back up its claim of loss, which it says must account for its remediation to members in a parallel case by ASIC. 

IMB Bank has been hit with a lawsuit by a Perth-based fintech alleging the mutual bank breached the copyright and a licence agreement for its customer relations management software. 

An IP Australia delegate has rejected olive oil maker Cobram Estate’s bid to register a trade mark featuring the phrase 'premium quality great taste', saying other traders should be free to use the label for similar goods.

Pizza chain Domino's has lodged an appeal and secured a stay of orders following a ruling in a class action that it misled franchisees on worker pay entitlements.