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BaptistCare can use Five Dock social housing as security, court finds
Construction 2025-05-05 11:58 pm By Andy Sidler

A court has clarified that BaptistCare Community Housing can use a social housing property in Five Dock to secure a loan from Housing Australia for improvements at the site. 

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Court to hear secret recording in Ben Roberts-Smith bid to re-open appeal
Appeals 2025-05-01 2:56 pm By Sam Matthews

A court has allowed Ben Roberts-Smith to admit into evidence a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie, as the former soldier makes a fresh bid to revive his failed defamation case.

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Funder behind failed class action against Quintis director, EY fights costs order
Class Actions 2025-05-01 11:53 pm By Andy Sidler

The funder that backed a failed shareholder class action against an ex-Quintis director and EY is fighting a bid for a third-party costs order, arguing such orders shouldn’t be imposed on funders where there is no doubt they will pay up.

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VSD wants stay of Builtcom win pending $8.5M payment claim challenge
Construction 2025-05-02 11:58 pm By Christine Caulfield

It lost its bid in the NSW Supreme Court to withhold a payment claim from the builder of a 30-storey project in Sydney pending an appeal, now developer VSD Investments has asked an appeals court to halt payment.

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Nine slams ‘absurd’ bid to hold solicitors in contempt in Lattouf case
Media 2025-04-30 1:38 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Two Nine in-house lawyers, as well as senior editors and journalists, are facing a contempt of court bid by individuals who are the subject of a suppression order in journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC.

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Federal Court in no rush to issue guidance on AI
AI 2025-04-30 2:51 pm By Sam Matthews

The Federal Court is in no rush to issue guidelines on the use of AI in court proceedings, as other courts have done, despite its wide adoption in the legal profession and uses that have already raised judges’ hackles.

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Blockchain Global director owes developer $10.3M in Bitcoin, court rules
Cryptocurrency 2025-04-30 11:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

A former cryptocurrency boss who faces a criminal investigation by ASIC is on the hook for a $10.3 million Bitcoin payout to a former employee, a court has found.

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Developer, builder’s directors on hook for homeowners’ ‘worst nightmare’
Construction 2025-05-01 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Directors of a family-run construction company that caused a landslide resulting in a couple’s NSW Central Coast home being “effectively worthless” has been ordered to pay over $2 million dollars.

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Court won’t block investor in Sam Altman-backed AI firm from voting on share sale
Corporate 2025-04-30 11:43 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has declined to make orders blocking a general meeting of the members of Cryptai, a company with a significant shareholding in Sam Altman-backed Ai company Rain Neuromorphics, in order to consider a share sale.

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Foxtel wins security in $12M dispute over download patent
Intellectual Property 2025-04-30 2:25 pm By Andy Sidler

The owner of a patent for software allowing users to download live television that is suing Foxtel for $12 million has been ordered to cough up $260,000 in security.

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