Mills Oakley

Lendlease has defeated a challenge to its 'Civil & Civic' trade mark despite lack of use, successfully arguing it retained a residual reputation in the name under which it built the Sydney Opera House podium.

A judge has refused to force the sale of a Footscray property used for logistics services, estimated to be worth $23 million, saying an agreement by the co-owners to sell it by a deadline could no longer be performed. 

Nicholas Bolton has lost his challenge to Keybridge Capital’s move to remove him from the board of confectionary group Yowie, after he was found to have been validly removed as the CEO of Keybridge in March. 

A liquidator for the defunct developer of a controversial south Sydney apartment building has won a bid to extend the time to bring potential voidable transaction proceedings.

A number of contractors have been added by builder Hansen Yuncken to a $14.3 million dollar lawsuit by Deakin University over alleged building defects at its Burwood campus.

Russell Kennedy has lured a partner from Mills Oakley to join its Sydney commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice.

The prospective developer of the Hyde Park Inn in Sydney has dropped its appeal of a decision which disallowed it from delaying a $95 million payment to the NSW Returned Service League.

A court has described a plan to demolish a 32-room boarding house for the construction of four luxury residences in Paddington as an "unacceptable loss" of affordable housing in inner-city Sydney.

A court has found a NSW prefab home builder that convinced a couple to vary their contract to allow different cladding which did not have the same aesthetic effect as their preferred one engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.

A judge has vacated an upcoming trial date in a data scraping case against US-based CoreLogic to allow the analytics company more time to respond to a "weighty" report by a forensic accountant.