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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.
One of Australia's largest law firms has taken its insurer to court for failing to cover part of a $3.7 million settlement of a claim stemming from the sale of apartments at a $105 million South Yarra complex developed by millionaire Harry Stamoulis.
The applicant in a class action against Fairview Architectural over allegedly combustible cladding is add insurer Vero Insurance as a respondent, after revealing the cladding manufacturer may have $190 million in insurance to cover the class action's claims.
Commercial real estate giant CBRE Group has lost its bid to toss proceedings brought by fund manager Trilogy claiming the company negligently valued a Queensland marina at $34.8 million in 2006 and caused millions in losses.
An appeals court has thrown out a challenge to a judgment awarding a cryptocurrency trader $1.96 million in cash and a property purchased for $1.5 million over a deal with a convicted fraudster involving "millions of dollars of cash in bags and suitcases".
The structural engineer behind Sydney's ill-fated Opal Tower can examine whether builder Icon Co has been indemnified for $31 million worth of damage which occurred in the 36-storey apartment block on Christmas Eve of 2018, a court has found.
Law firm HWL Ebsworth has dodged a $424,000 damages claim by a Brisbane property developer, despite a judge finding the law firm was negligent in failing to properly follow its client's instructions on a contract of sale for large block of units.
A judge has questioned property developer PPK Group's challenge to the dismissal of its long-running negligence case against HWL Ebsworth over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned land in Sydney.