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A Sydney developer has been slapped with orders preventing it from selling the ‘Honeycomb Terraces’ in order to preserve the funds available to the owners corporation, which is seeking damages over defects at the allegedly contaminated site.

Apartment owners in Sydney's Alcove St Ives development have won extra time for evidence ahead of an expert huddle in a $123 million defects suit against a unit of builder Meriton.

Parkview Constructions is looking to settle a second case over alleged combustible cladding at Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park.

Developer Geocon has lost its bid to strike out claims in a case over Canberra's Infinity Towers that it breached statutory warranties, with a judge saying it was a difficult legal issue best left for trial. 

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.

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 Meadowbank owners corporation has won an appeal in its fight with builder Raysons over defects, with a judge saying an appeals tribunal failed to correct a decision so "replete with typographical errors" that it amounted to "nonsense".

Owners at the Alcove development in Sydney’s North Shore have been given the green light to expand their case against the Meriton-owned builders to claim $123 million in damages for alleged systemic defects. 

The owners corporation of a Meriton apartment block in Sydney can add late evidence of alleged defects, despite a judge calling the case "an example of how proceedings in the Technology and Construction List should not be conducted”.

A law firm partner has avoided personal liability for costs after expert reports were filed late in a dispute with developer Mirvac over alleged defects in a Sydney apartment complex, having walked back an appeal to “competing commitments” that didn’t wash in court.