Sparke Helmore

LG Australia has defeated an appeal of a decision which found it did not breach the duty of care owed to the owners of a refrigerator which caught fire, who were not provided with a replacement through a recall process.

An appeals court has tossed a challenge to a judgment against Polyaire, the lessee of an industrial premises in Sydney, after a judge found the air conditioning wholesaler was responsible for a fire that ignited after pellets were left exposed to the rain and sun.

A court has granted development approval to an 85-unit apartment block in Sydney's North Shore that exceeds height restrictions, finding that strict compliance is unnecessary given the development will provide affordable housing. 

The High Court has been asked to weigh in on whether lawyers need to examine the underlying contracts in a dispute before determining whether a claim or defence is likely to succeed, in a challenge to the dismissal of a negligence suit against a Sydney solicitor.

Three Sydney residents have appealed a ruling that gutted their suit against the city of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory.

A former IP Australia patent examiner has lost his latest appeal of a Fair Work Commission decision that found he was not forced to resign from his job.

A court has backed the NSW Central Coast Council’s decision to block the construction of a 118-lot residential development, after the developer failed to adequately offset the impacts on the swift parrot and squirrel glider. 

The Commonwealth has told a court it needs to interview 32 people before responding to a Fair Work Act case by Brittany Higgins’ former manager, Fiona Brown, who became a key witness in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial. 

A suit against the City of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory has been gutted, with a court substantially striking out the pleading.

A judge has allowed a novel negligence claim in a class action over the NSW Liberal Party’s failure to lodge paperwork for local candidates, saying a High Court ruling that rejected a duty of care to protect against economic loss did not doom the claim.