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Special leave refused in dispute over $81.8M Parklea Markets sale
David Williams 2022-05-20 3:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has refused Sydney retail personality Con Constantine’s bid to challenge a $4.25 million judgment in his favour over the $81.8 million Parklea Markets sale in 2016.

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Opal Tower class action reaches eleventh-hour settlement before 40-day trial
Construction 2022-05-19 10:54 pm By Sam Matthews

A long-running class action over the Opal Tower disaster has settled, along with two related cases over the defective building, as a five-week trial was set to begin.

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Perth Airport misled United in lease negotiations, lawsuit claims
Contracts 2022-05-18 4:17 pm By Sam Matthews

United Petroleum has taken Perth Airport to court, arguing it was induced to enter a $900,000 lease and construction agreement at the airport’s central precinct with empty promises of redevelopment at the site.

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Hall & Wilcox snags property partner from Gadens
Real Estate 2022-05-16 2:34 pm By Sam Matthews

Hall & Wilcox has appointed a new partner to join its real estate practice in Brisbane, the second partner appointment in as many months at the firm’s Queen Street offices. 

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Client sues Moray & Agnew over ‘unauthorised’ $3.3M transfer
Business of Law 2022-05-10 2:45 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Moray & Agnew is facing a lawsuit by a former client who says the firm breached its duties by making an unauthorised $3.3 million transfer while representing him on an investment in a Melbourne storage facility development.

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Sparke Helmore should face higher damages bill for negligence, developer says
Professional Negligence 2022-05-06 4:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A NSW developer says law firm Sparke Helmore should face a heftier damages bill for its negligence in failing to alert it to an imminent deadline in two land sale contracts worth a combined $1.5 million that were part of a troubled $30 million development.

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High Court to hear CoreLogic appeal over copyright for real estate pics
Intellectual Property 2022-04-20 11:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether property data analytics firm CoreLogic infringed a real estate photographer’s copyright by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its platform.

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High Court refuses leave to class action in GST case against developer
Class Actions 2022-04-19 6:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court won’t hear a challenge to a decision finding a Canberra property developer that misled investors about GST on its apartments did not have to pay for losses alleged in a class action against it.

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CBRE wins appeal over allegedly negligent $27.3M valuation
Real Estate 2022-04-13 9:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Real estate giant CBRE Group has won its appeal in a dispute with defunct fund manager City Pacific, which claimed the company negligently valued a Queensland marina at $27.3 million in 2006 and caused millions in losses.

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JD Group wins stay of damages for couple ‘misled’ over $10M luxury digs
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-03-28 5:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

Damages owed to a millionaire couple by JD Group over a “deliberately misleading” rendering of a $9.58 million apartment in South Yarra, Melbourne will be put on ice pending the outcome of the property developer’s appeal.

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