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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.

The National Basketball League has succeeded in staying preliminary discovery proceedings by the Illawarra Hawks and Melbourne Phoenix basketball clubs, with a judge finding their licence agreement contained a broad dispute resolution clause.

A "practice of prudence" required a judge to recuse himself from a $1 billion lawsuit over the Callide power station, CS Energy said Monday.

A fight over the sale of Dexus' shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC “may well” go to the High Court, a judge said Friday, as the infrastructure asset manager tells the court the sale may be in the “many billions of dollars".

A group of owners at The Towers in Elizabeth Quay has sued Hong Kong-based developer Far East Consortium over alleged defects in the building. 

Cosette wants to strike out Mayne Pharma’s claim for damages over their thwarted $672 million merger, arguing it creates a multiplicity of cases in which various shareholder groups' interests conflict.

A Federal Court judge has ordered small loan provider CashnGo to pay $3.5 million after it admitted to using unfair terms in customer contracts.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is seeking $30 million in penalties in its case against Hollard Insurance over delays in assessing the claims of a couple over damage to their home from a storm. 

A unit of ASX-listed mining company Equatorial Resources has lost a bid to block its former solicitors Clifford Chance from arbitrating a $5 million costs dispute.

Costs in Rebel Wilson's $10 million dispute with her co-producers on 'The Deb' are expected to reach $5 million, prompting shock from a judge who said she had "never seen legal costs this big for such a simple case".