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Planning law doesn’t bar jurisdictional review bid to Supreme Court, judges say
IGA can pursue its Victoria Supreme Court challenge to a decision allowing up to four supermarkets to operate in Shepparton, with an appeal bench finding the court can review planning decisions for jurisdictional error.
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Faced with increasing problem, court puts law firm on hook for AI-hallucinated citations
Referring to a "growing problem" noticed by the Federal Court, a judge has slapped a law firm in a native title case with costs for its use of artificial intelligence to generate false document citations.
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Developer loses challenge to Victorian waste-to-energy plant
A real estate developer based in the Victorian town slated as the location for a waste-to-energy plant has lost its challenge to the proposed project.
Pepper spray class action claims Victoria police intended to injure protestors
Mid-trial amendments to a class action over Victoria Police use of pepper spray on environmental protesters in 2019 claim officers deployed the spray knowing and intending that it would harm the activists.
Vic Police accused of ‘total overreach’ as pepper spray class action kicks off
Victoria Police’s use of pepper spray to disperse environmental protesters at a 2019 mining conference was a “total overreach” of force, a court has heard.
Homes Victoria docs shielded from public housing class action, court rules
Citing public interest immunity, Homes Victoria has won a bid for Cabinet documents to be kept confidential in a class action levelled by public housing tenants.
Homes Victoria says recording reasons for tower demolition plan ‘superfluous’
Homes Victoria says the decision to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne -- now the subject of a class action -- took residents' human rights into account, but has no documents to show it.
Judge ‘startled’ by Homes Victoria’s claim in public housing class action
Homes Victoria's claim that there are no documents recording its reasons for deciding to demolish and redevelop two public housing towers that housed 1,200 people left a judge "startled".
CFMEU secretary Michael O’Connor taken to court by APRA
The prudential regulator has filed court action against First Super co-chair and CFMEU manufacturing division boss Michael O'Connor, alleging he breached his director's duties under superannuation laws when he hired a union official to work for the fund.
Housing class action to drop claims against Victoria, as judge slams ‘hasty’ new pleading
A class action over the Victorian government’s decision to retire Melbourne’s high rise public housing towers has agreed to drop claims against the state of Victoria and the minister for housing after a judge threw out the claims but allowed the class action to replead.