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Several entitles in the Cottle family group, which owns construction company FDC Construction & Fitout, have won more time to serve a $280 million negligence suit on accounting firms Nexia and PricewaterhouseCoopers over more than two decades of tax and financial advice.

The information of 900,000 current and former Origin Energy customers was accessed during a recent cyberattack, the company has revealed.

The site owner of a proposed shopping centre in Melton must return $1.5 million to a defunct developer that allegedly breached a $30 million land sale contract, an appeals court has found.

Real estate investment firm ISPT on Wednesday failed in its challenge to a $10.7 million stamp duty assessment, with a judge finding Victoria's revenue office was entitled to lump two acquisitions together.

A judge has rejected Forte Construction's bid to overhaul its defence to $6.3 million in claims by the liquidators of collapsed real estate fund manager iProsperity, saying the company had shown "contumelious disregard" for the court's earlier orders.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has cleared the way for Woolworths to set up shop in Moss Vale in NSW's Southern Highlands region, accepting evidence that existing supermarkets would remain viable in light of expected population growth. 

Renewable energy company Neoen has won two 15-year contracts in South Australia’s first energy reliability tender and will double the size of its Goyder Battery at its flagship energy hub to fulfill the mandate.

Built has secured a contract to build Defence HQ, an 11-storey building in Adelaide, which will support defence contractors and projects involved in the AUKUS partnership.

A judge has approved an $18.1 million settlement in an underpayments class action against Sydney Trains, with $2 million to be deducted for legal costs.

Clothing giant H&M has resolved a lawsuit brought by its former head of human resources in Australia, who accused the company of breaching employment laws.