Industries

Infrastructure services company Downer EDI has been awarded a $400 million maintenance and repair contract with Homes Victoria.

A company linked to the Victorian Liberal Party will have to turn over unredacted versions of a loan provided to former party leader John Pesutto to help him pay $2.3 million owed to MP Moira Deeming in defamation proceedings. 

INXS has had mixed success in its challenge to a Chinese clothing company's IMXS trade mark, with IP Australia allowing an amended version of the disputed mark to be registered.

An IP Australia delegate has found that an e-commerce merchandise importer's logo featuring a northeast-facing arrow was not identical or substantially similar to a Target mark with an arrow facing in the same direction.

In a failed bid for discovery of internal communications at BDO Audit, Dubber has claimed a BDO employee sent an illustrated image of cash being passed under a table while discussing the firm's audit of the software company.

Whitehaven Coal has won a court's imprimatur for leases to mine coal at its Winchester South site, despite the court's finding that emissions from the project near Moranbah, Queensland would be "extraordinary".

Amcor is liable for some of the $23 million in costs claimed by builder Glenvill for asbestos contamination remediation at a former industrial site in Alphington, Melbourne, a court has ruled.

Liquidators for the Tahmoor coal mine in NSW have told a judge they fear confidential information could be misused if law firm Norton Rose Fulbright continues to act for two companies linked to steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta. 

A developer has succeeded in overturning a ruling that it owes $6.1 million in damages to an off-the-plan buyer after it sold two Brisbane penthouses to other buyers for more than double the original contract price.

The government will not appeal a ruling that found former environment minister Tanya Plibersek lacked authority to declare part of the McPhillamys gold mine heritage protected after she received new information about a "central and material" Dreaming story.