Justice Kathryn Stynes

A superintendent on a $25 million Melbourne project had no power to make an adjustment to a payment claim for purported cost overruns that left the builder owing more than the value of its claim, a judge has held.

CityLink operator CML, which was found to have overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast, has argued that it also overpaid and is entitled to damages, but ConnectEast has told a judge the claim is time-barred and doesn't fall within a cross-claim exception. 

A judge has found that Victoria's SOP Act is not at odds with the Australian Consumer Law, refusing to set aside a $1.85 million adjudication determination in a dispute over a $38 million contract for a Glen Iris residential development.

West Gate Tunnel builders CPB Contractors and John Holland say engineer Aurecon Australasia should be on the hook for $359 million in damages for alleged design errors in Victoria’s West Tunnel project, a court has heard. 

Deakin University is suing builder Hanson Yuncken seeking $14.3 million for alleged defects on a building at its Burwood campus.

CityLink plans to appeal a February decision that found it overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast for roaming fees to allow users to use both toll roads on one account.

CityLink operator CML has been overcharging Eastlink operator ConnectEast for ‘roaming fees’ in an arrangement that allows customers to use one account over both toll roads, a court has found.

A judge has ordered Crown Resorts to share the costs of soft class closure with the plaintiff in a shareholder class action accusing it of lax anti-money laundering compliance, saying that soft class closure ahead of mediation was in the interests of both parties. 

When the Supreme Court of Victoria considers for the first time a settlement reached in a class action run on a contingency fee basis, it will grapple with some novel questions, including whether to trim the 27.5 per cent group costs order granted to Slater & Gordon at the outset of the case, legal experts say.

Developer Centurion Australia Investments has lost an appeal in a dispute with builder APM Group in which it argued that its RMIT Village student accommodation falls under laws applying to domestic buildings.