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Adelaide lawyer Jason Karas is challenging a ruling that he pay $41 million to his former business partner and law firm for what a court found was a secret plan to sell the firm’s Hong Kong-based entity.

Dumped radio presenter Kyle Sandilands is suing ARN Media over its decision to cancel his 10-year $100 million contract following an on-air spat with long-time co-host Jackie 'O' Henderson.

NDIS-registered healthcare equipment provider Aidacare has admitted it likely breached the Australian Consumer Law with representations made about customers' consumer guarantee rights.

Major infrastructure manager Downer Group has signed a five-year $500 million deal to manage Stockland’s suite of operational assets.

After a win in their spat over the sale of Brazil's Santa Rita nickel mine, two Australian companies who held all shares in the mine's owner, Atlantic Nickel, may seek costs against Omni Bridgeway and Balance REV, the litigation funders of the loser in the case.

A court has excused the developer of a warehouse in greater western Sydney from paying a $1.38 million rent guarantee to CapitaLand Ascendas' REIT trustee Perpetual, finding it met its obligation to procure a tenant.

The wife of a Dubai investor who is accused of failing to repay a $10.7 million debt over a "highly unusual" airport investment proposal has been hit with a third-party freezing order, after the court heard that she received $1.2 million from her husband's business.

The owner of a concrete business has lost his suit against the purchasers for compensation for out of hours work, with a judge finding his services agreement made clear he was to be paid a fixed annual rate of $200,000.

Acciona has won $2.1 million from Zurich Insurance and two other insurers in a case alleging it was entitled to indemnity after severe weather events damaged work on the Bruce Highway project in Queensland. 

Transport for NSW has issued a warning to M6 construction contractors CPB, Ghella and UGL over a “sustained failure” to resume work on the Sydney motorway after sinkholes forced a halt to the project in 2024.