Contracts

A former partner at Potentia Capital Management has brought proceedings claiming the private equity firm breached a settlement agreement after his employment at its fintech Linkly was terminated following alleged whistleblower complaints.

Global jewellery company Pandora has been ordered to pay $467,000 with interest to one of its former franchisees, after being scammed into transferring the money into an unknown third-party bank account. 

Lawyers for LBJ Developments have told a judge that its joint venture partners on a development at the former Lilydale quarry breached their obligations by failing to honour a contractual right to tender for quarry filling works at the site.

A legal showdown between actress Rebel Wilson and the co-producers of her film 'The Deb' will commence next month, two weeks after Wilson successfully defended defamation proceedings by the film's lead actress.

Sportsbet's 'fast code' betting system was not a genuine telephone betting service because customers had already transmitted  information before making the call, according to a class action which argues punters would not have placed bets had they known the system was illegal. 

Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.

The site owner of a proposed shopping centre in Melton must return $1.5 million to a defunct developer that allegedly breached a $30 million land sale contract, an appeals court has found.

A developer can't expand its case against its partners on a residential development at the site of the Lilydale Quarry weeks out from trial, with a judge saying the new claims were brought too late and would unfairly prejudice the defendants. 

A judge has allowed broadcaster Australian Radio Network to use two affidavits filed in settled proceedings by shock jock Kyle Sandilands in defending co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s case, finding the affidavits were filed “voluntarily”.

Westwood Capital has lost its appeal over a contract to sell commercial property in Punchbowl for $100 million, after a judge found it was an uncommercial transaction and that Westwood had reasonable grounds to suspect the purchaser would become insolvent.