Contracts

Actor Rebel Wilson has been sued by a UK production company that co-produced her film The Deb, claiming she "deliberately undermined” the movie’s distribution. 

A court has ordered companies in billionaire Bob Ell's Leda Group to pay a senior executive $178,000 for terminating his retainer without adequate notice, ending what the court heard was an abusive working relationship.

A judge has called the conduct of proceedings concerning a service station business “atrocious” and dismissed the claim after it was on foot for six years.

Dairy distributor Australian Consolidated Milk has lodged proceedings against competitor Fonterra, alleging the cooperative encouraged suppliers to break their exclusive supply agreements by offering a better price.

A court has found that United Petroleum is not bound by the terms of a signed lease offer sent to a neighbouring Gold Coast pharmacy operator, ruling the company’s property consultant had no authority to negotiate or enter into a new lease on its behalf. 

A court has knocked back online merchandise importer New Aim’s trade secrets case against a former employee who gave the contact details of the company's suppliers, stored on his personal phone, to a competitor after jumping ship. 

Developer Synergy has won an injunction in a dispute over the construction of a student accommodation in Adelaide, with an appeals court finding the primary judge did not correctly weigh the prejudice to Synergy if it had to pay up to $2 million in guarantees. 

The prospective developer of the Hyde Park Inn in Sydney has dropped its appeal of a decision which disallowed it from delaying a $95 million payment to the NSW Returned Service League.

In a new suit against the developer of an abandoned $185 million project in Sydney, Shinetec has asked the court to declare its priority interest in a $48 million payment recently paid to the developer by Bank of China.