Jones Day has lured a real estate expert from Clayton Utz to join its Brisbane office as a partner.
The University of Newcastle has been hit with a class action alleging students were misled into studying an engineering degree that lacked professional accreditation and left them unable to apply for employment.
General Motors has moved to strike-out a class action over allegedly faulty transmission systems in Holden cars, arguing the plaintiff needs to plead the alleged design flaw with specificity, not just by reference to symptoms.
The corporate regulator has brought action against three companies in Sanjeev Gupta’s steel empire, alleging the businesses have defaulted on their obligations to lodge annual financial reports.
The ACT government is pushing for an initial trial dealing with “gateway questions” in a class action over alleged forced relocations of public housing tenants, after it lost a bid to summarily dismiss the case.
A judge has approved a $43 million settlement in a class action action alleging Noumi misled investors about its inventory, including a 22 per cent group costs order to be split between the two law firms that ran the case.
Developer Geocon has lost its bid to strike out claims in a case over Canberra’s Infinity Towers that it breached statutory warranties, with a judge saying it was a difficult legal issue best left for trial.
Centuria Capital Group has divested an office block in Sydney’s southern suburbs for $116 million after holding it for nine years.
Liquidators of Snowdon Developments have brought proceedings against building suppliers to claw back more than $2 million in payments they say were made while the Victorian developer was insolvent.
In a first, the federal government has filed proceedings against a foreign investor and its former associate for alleged non-compliance with orders to divest their interests in rare minerals miner Northern Minerals.