Owners in Sydney’s Mascot Towers have struck a deal with the developer that built a neighbouring property, in a lawsuit seeking more than $15 million in damages over alleged structural cracks that made their apartments unlivable.
Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.
Law firm Mills Oakley is launching a cyber risk and insurance offering spearheaded by former HWL Ebsworth partner Jason Symons.
Construction giant Hutchinson has succeeded in bringing claims against a related entity of a Port Melbourne property developer over a $153 million project after alleging the developer was a “company of straw” that had no assets.
Mills Oakley has poached a leading employment law partner from King & Wood Mallesons for its growing workplace relations team.
An IP boutique in a lawsuit against two former lawyers who left to launch a rival firm has alleged documents it sought from the pair had been destroyed or deleted.
Mills Oakley has picked up a leading dispute resolution lawyer from Thomson Geer to join the firm’s not-for-profit team as partner.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether property data analytics firm CoreLogic infringed a real estate photographer’s copyright by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its platform.
An Australian designer of a trendy neoprene handbag sold at high-end department stores has lost an appeal which challenged a judge’s finding that its flagship bag was not a work of artistic craftsmanship.
Mills Oakley has bolstered its intellectual property practice with the appointment of new partner Lisa Egan, who will be based in the firm’s Melbourne office.