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A judge has issued a stern warning to litigation funders seeking to take a “gamble” on pending court proceedings, ruling they could be held liable for costs if their intervention proves critical to the advancement of the case.
Prefab concrete company Evolution Precast Systems failed to install reinforced concrete in Sydney's ill-fated Opal Tower and knew about a prior failure with one of the building's panels, engineer WSP Structures alleges in a cross-claim lobbed in a class action on behalf of residents of the tower.
Property developer PPK Group is challenging the dismissal of its long-running negligence case against law firm HWL Ebsworth over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned Sydney land.
An award-winning Gold Coast solicitor and four directors of the Members Alliance and Benchmark group of companies have been charged in connection with the collapse of the property investment group in 2016.
A judge has questioned why a class action against Aveo Group has “stalled” after tossing the retirement home provider’s bid to determine group members’ loss in a preliminary hearing, saying the questions in the case could not be “neatly separated”.
Retirement home provider Aveo Group, which is facing a class action by residents, wants a court to determine group members' loss in a preliminary hearing, but a judge has questioned whether he is barred from deciding the "hypothetical" question.
With mediation failing to resolve an expansive class action against the federal government over its use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam, a judge has charted a plan to avoid a "Brobdingnagian" trial and efficiently determine the claims of group members around eight military bases across Australia.
Property data analytics firm CoreLogic infringed the copyright of a real estate photographer by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its own property data platform without a licence, the Full Federal Court has found.
Sydney retail personality Con Constantine has lost an appeal seeking to bolster a $4.25 million judgment in his favour over the $81.8 million Parklea Markets sale in 2016.
A court has shut down the latest legal spat between the children of one of Australia's richest families, finding a lawsuit over a $200 million real estate transaction was not brought in good faith and that running the case was not in the best interests of the company involved in the deal.