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Property developer JD Group will have to pay damages to a Melbourne couple after a judge found the company’s artistic renderings of a $9.58 million South Yarra apartment were “deliberately misleading”.
The will of "Australia's worst landlord" -- Melbourne businessman Frank Cassar -- was forged in a conspiracy by his widow, daughter and son who feared losing his multimillion dollar business empire after his death, a court has found.
Lloyd's has won access to letters between Moray & Agnew and an insurer to test its claims that a $3.7 million settlement the law firm agreed to over the sale of apartments at a $105 million South Yarra complex developed by millionaire Harry Stamoulis was excessive and made to protect the firm's reputation.
A judge has questioned the $55,000 penalty jointly proposed by the parties in ASIC’s case against fintech company Squirrel Super over misleading statements about returns on property statements, saying it “might be a bit light on.”
A Lloyd's syndicate has hit back at a lawsuit by Moray & Agnew, saying it did not have to cover part of a $3.7 million settlement between the law firm and a Melbourne property developer because the amount agreed to was "excessive".
The Canberra developer behind the Manhattan on the Park apartment building in the national capital has been hit with a class action on behalf of home buyers who were allegedly misled into paying GST on the price of their property.
HWL Ebsworth has told a judge the law firm's omission of a mutual debt liability clause in a joint venture contract could not have led former client Dairycorp to lose a $130 million opportunity to develop land northwest of Sydney.
HWL Ebsworth's clients suffered a staggering $130 million loss when the law firm's solicitors failed to notice “obvious red flags” in a joint venture contract for an ambitious Sydney-based land development, a court has heard.
Melbourne farmers-turned-developers the Bozzo family have sued a national law firm for allegedly giving bad tax advice on the $3 billion Wyndham Vale development in Melbourne's west, situated on 482 hectares of land the family purchased in 1994.
Macpherson Kelley is headed for trial next week in a case that alleges the law firm bungled the execution of a 10-year lease agreement with Shell for a service station in Melbourne, giving the energy giant an extra 320 square metres equating to $2.5 million in lost rent for its landlord client.