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A judge has sided with Melbourne's Whittlesea City Council in its challenge to a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision that found it couldn't charge AV Jennings fees for landscape plans.

A judge has found the site of the Boroondara Tennis Centre in Melbourne should be valued at $50 million after it was compulsorily acquired for the North East Link project.

Winslow Constructors has accused Victoria’s transport authority of singling it out in litigation over alleged road defects, questioning why contractors responsible for adjacent roads have not faced similar legal action.

The ACCC has appealed a judge's dismissal of its case against mail-order catalogue business Magnamail after finding representations that customers could win major prizes if they ordered from its catalogues were true.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

The site owner of a proposed shopping centre in Melton must return $1.5 million to a defunct developer that allegedly breached a $30 million land sale contract, an appeals court has found.

Magnamail has defeated an ACCC suit alleging it misled customers by representing they were eligible for major prizes if they ordered from its catalogues, with a judge finding the mail order company's representation that customers 'could' win major prizes was true.

A group opposing a Southern Cross Gold unit’s Victorian gold tunnel project has been ordered to pay $50,000 in security, with a judge saying he was unconvinced the case is purely in the public interest. 

Westwood Capital has lost its appeal over a contract to sell commercial property in Punchbowl for $100 million, after a judge found it was an uncommercial transaction and that Westwood had reasonable grounds to suspect the purchaser would become insolvent.

A Southern Cross Gold unit has attacked a community group’s failure to put on evidence of its members' financial status to support claims that it can't meet the company’s $230,000 security demand in a dispute over a Victorian tunneling project.