Judges

Fortrend Securites is challenging a judge's ruling that it owes $580,000 in penalties and compensation for withholding the bonuses of two departing advisors, its second appeal in their bitter dispute.

AUSTRAC wants Star to pay a $400 million penalty for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws, while the company claims a penalty of more than $100 million would tip it into liquidation. 

The environment minister has argued there is no “screaming urgency” in hearing a traditional custodian’s legal challenge to Woodside’s bid to extend its North West Shelf gas project by 40 years. 

Owners of apartments at Meriton's Alcove St Ives will fight a defence by the developer's building unit they say goes against court orders made allowing them to greatly expand their case.

The owners of land acquired to build the Mordialloc Freeway have lost a bid for $52.8 million in compensation, with an appeals court affirming that they are only entitled to $2.24 million because of prior compensation paid on the land.

Parkview Constructions has reached a settlement in an owners corporation’s lawsuit over allegedly combustible cladding at the Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park.

A judge has ruled that the owners corporation of a 20-unit development in Cabramatta is entitled to damages from the developer over defects, after promised rectification works were not carried out by an agreed date.

A judge has thrown out a notice to produce issued by an Australian company being targeted by UK genomic sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies, calling its bid for board minutes and other documents a “fishing expedition”.