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OpenAI wins challenge to trade mark with ‘GPT’ suffix
Intellectual Property 2025-07-31 11:47 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix ‘GPT’.

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Transgrid resolves Melbourne BESS contractor’s $11M case over union dispute
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-08-01 11:41 pm By Christine Caulfield

A lawsuit against Transgrid by the winning bidder for a contract to build a substation for the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub, which sought $11 million in extra costs and damages for alleged union disruptions, has been settled.

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Charter Hall can respond to Pitt St developer’s reply evidence in $100M suit
Construction 2025-08-01 11:47 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has allowed Charter Hall to respond to developer Pro-Invest’s expert evidence in a case claiming $100 million in damages for the lost opportunity to build a 26-storey hotel in the Sydney CBD. 

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Solicitor beats appeal in negligence case over rescinded property sale
Real Estate 2025-08-01 11:28 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

An appeals court has declined to revive a negligence case against a solicitor accused by a former client of failing to advise him on key clauses in a rescinded $1.7 million sale contract.

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PE firm Goldstone can’t appeal oppression ruling before damages
Financial Services 2025-07-31 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found  it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.

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Convicted accountant Vanda Gould loses appeal in fight with ATO
Tax 2025-07-31 11:44 pm By Sam Matthews

A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.

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Super Retail Group faces underpayments class action probe
Class Actions 2025-07-30 11:26 pm By Sam Matthews

Rebel Sport owner Super Retail Group is facing a possible class action for allegedly underpaying staff at its stores since 2019.

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Privilege fight on cards in case against HWL Ebsworth over Belmore development
Article 2025-07-31 11:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

A fight over legal professional privilege is looming in a case against HWL Ebsworth and a former partner by investors in projects by property developer Belmore 88.

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Veolia wins draft conditions from EPA in fight over waste transfer station
Construction 2025-07-31 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed. 

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Chubb dodges Double Bay property owner’s defects claims
Construction 2025-07-31 11:46 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has rejected a Double Bay property owner’s bid to put Chubb on the hook for any damages a builder may owe for alleged defects. 

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