Appeals

The High Court has thrown out Victoria's $4,970 cap on political donations months ahead of the next state elections, finding the law is unconstitutional and unlawfully benefits the major parties.

Queensland developer York Property has lost its appeal of a ruling that held an adjudicator erred in finding $4.7 million in costs over alleged façade defects should be deducted from amounts owed in a payments spat with a builder Tomkins. 

The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia has failed in its bid for special leave to the High Court, after an appeals court found it couldn't escape unfair dismissal proceedings.

The High Court has refused special leave to BHP in a case testing orders that it pay labour hire workers at its Queensland coal mines the same as its permanent employees.

The High Court has rejected former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann's special leave application seeking to appeal civil findings that he raped colleague Brittany Higgins.

The High Court has agreed to review a ruling that upheld an easement of prescription -- or right of long use -- in a fight between a member of the prominent Valmorbida family and an entity linked to the founder of collapsed construction group Steller over access to a Sorrento property.

The High Court has declined two special leave applications in lawsuits over the failed Pentridge Village development in Melbourne. 

Transport for New South Wales is mulling an appeal of a ruling that ordered it to pay an additional $28.6 million for land acquired to build the M12 motorway to the new Western Sydney Airport. 

The Fair Work Commission has rejected Chemist Warehouse's appeal of orders requiring it to negotiate a multi-employer agreement with its South Australian workforce under new bargaining laws.

Rideshare giant Uber is not a passive intermediary between drivers and riders, the NSW Office of State Revenue has told the High Court in a case over $81 million in payroll tax, but controls trips via its platform "from start to finish".