Contracts

Qube has accused Martinus Rail of behaving like a “delinquent debtor” as it seeks to restrain the logistics company from enforcing a $26 million judgment in a dispute over Sydney’s $4 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

A judge has ruled in favour of a funder who unknowingly agreed not to claim ownership over a council refund worth $800,000, the court finding that the developer’s director intended to claim the refund without the funder’s knowledge. 

A class action against Jetstar over flight cancellations during COVID-19 wants to add claims alleging the airline breached consumer guarantees and made intentionally false statements to hundreds of thousands of customers. 

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum has dropped a swathe of claims, including allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct, as it seeks to amend its case for the tenth time in four years.

A judge has tossed a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, finding it did not have binding agreements to buy 500,000 metric tonnes of coal annually from two NSW coal miners controlled by Jindal Steel.

The developer behind a Shellharbour mixed-use development has defeated a suit seeking to make him personally repay a company debt, in a dispute a judge called a “cautionary tale” about side deals.

Perth Airport will pay United Petroleum $8.7 million after the company built a larger petrol station on the basis of the airport's representations that the Qantas terminal would be relocated. 

An architecture firm can maintain its proportionate liability defence in a defects lawsuit over the construction of an aged care facility in Box Hill, with a judge finding it has an arguable case. 

Sand importer Metro Environmental Logistics has foreshadowed an appeal after losing its case against the Port Authority of NSW over a lease agreement for a multi-user facility in Sydney Harbour.

A builder has been ordered to pay owners of a Cremorne house $1.25 million in damages over defective renovations.