Justice Elisabeth Peden

Multiplex wants a court to order a third round of mediation in a case by the University of Sydney over alleged defects at the Charles Perkins Centre, but the university is not keen, and told a court Friday another defect had only recently been uncovered.

Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.

A judge has set aside a SOPA determination after finding a verbal conversation between a developer and a crane supplier did not constitute a construction contract.

Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona is mulling cross-claims against contractor Veolia Australia after losing its fight to move their dispute over the Kwinana waste-to-energy project west, a court has heard.

Infrastructure giant Acciona must fight a $224M lost-revenue case by contractor Veolia Australia over the Kwinana waste-to-energy plant on Veolia's home turf.

The trustee for shareholders that want to retain their Dexus-managed stake in Australia Pacific Airports Corporation can't be separately represented from the selling group, a judge has ruled in a case that pits APAC's investors against each other.

Glencore wants a second chance to argue its case against Port of Newcastle over wharfage fees, which it claims were excessive in light of a determination by the competition watchdog.

A developer has won an injunction to stop a builder from enforcing an adjudication decision in a dispute over a $3 million payment claim, with a judge finding it would be an abuse of process to make the developer pay.

As it battles for ACCC approval to buy the East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia, infrastructure giant Acciona faces litigation by waste management firm Veolia over the state's other major plant.

Fonterra said Tuesday it had settled a dispute with Bega Cheese over the status of lucrative licence agreements as part of a $3.8 billion sale of its Australian business to French dairy company Lactalis.