Mallesons

Two Suncorp units and insurer TAL Life have agreed to pay $34 million to settle a class action over allegedly worthless add-on insurance sold at car dealerships.

Logistics company Qube wants the High Court to clarify the scope of an adjudicator's role in determining a contractor's payment claims under the SOP Act.

Infrastructure and real asset investment firm Stonepeak has entered a deal to acquire a 75 per cent interest in Queensland-based commercial fuel and logistics provider IOR Group.

The High Court has been asked to weigh in on when a court should step in when the machinery governing the entitlement to payments in a contract breaks down, in a dispute between luxury home builder Glenvill and Amcor over asbestos remediation at an industrial site in the Melbourne suburb of Alphington.

Court approval of a $50 million settlement in a class action against ANZ and superannuation trustee OnePath has been delayed, after 22,000 group members were excluded from an opt-out notice due to a problem with OnePath's computing process.

A judge has given the Victorian unit of Roberts Co more time to put forward a deed of company arrangement that would save the builder from liquidation, noting liquidation could imperil its projects and subcontractors, who could not bring claims under the SOP Act if it was insolvent. 

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over alleged loss-making Pie Face stores has been ordered to hand over $3.7 million in security, with a judge finding it was not likely to stultify the class action.

Clayton Utz has become the latest tenant in a new commercial precinct under development in Canberra's CBD.

Real estate landlord Dexus is suing South Australia's medical research insitute for failing to execute on 30-year leases to occupy Adelaide's Australian Bragg Centre, despite "repeated demands".

Mills Oakley has hired two new partners for its financial services and national property teams.