Justice Maree Kennedy

Victoria’s State Revenue Office has gone to the High Court in its battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

A former director of Melbourne-based Aviation 3030 has failed to overturn a finding that the liquidators of the landbanking company could recover half of a $3.4 million landholder duty liability from him.

An appeals court has knocked back a constitutional challenge by the developers of a $38 million residential development seeking to set aside an adjudication determination on the basis that the Victorian SOP Act conflicts with the Australian Consumer Law. 

Victoria’s State Revenue Office has lost its challenge to a decision for shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds, which quashed a $82.5 million stamp duty assessment on land occupied by Myer and the Lonsdale St Emporium.

The High Court will hear the appeal of a failed class action over the planned demolition of inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, which will involve consideration of the right to remain in settled social communities.

An appeals court has rejected a class action's challenge to a finding that Homes Victoria had a legitimate purpose in deciding to demolish and redevelop public housing towers in Melbourne, despite “lamentable” lack of consultation. 

A medical assessment served under the Wrongs Act by a patient of Dr Daniel Lanzer needed to come to the attention of the surgeon himself, not just his solicitors, despite the lawyers being authorised to receive other documents in the case, an appeals court has found. 

A developer has failed to revive its $400 million lawsuit against an investor over a development at the site of the former Pentridge Prison in Victoria, with an appeals court agreeing the case was properly dismissed. 

Grand Ridge Plantations has lost an appeal seeking to halve the official valuation of its Gippsland timber forest, with a court finding that the trees on the land must be included in its assessed value.

A collapsed developer and its builder have failed again in their dispute against a financier over the Pentridge Village development in Melbourne, with an appeals court taking a critical view of years of delays.