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Property group Catalyst has won $31.7 million from a trustee corporation of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland over a suite of scuppered transactions for land and aged care homes.

Engineer Monadelphous has lost a fight that will affect its ability to run a limitations defence in a suit over alleged defects in a sewage plant upgrade on the Sunshine Coast.

A joint venture of AGL Energy and Someva Renewables has been given the government's go-ahead for a new wind farm in NSW's Riverina region that is expected to power almost 600,000 homes.

Telstra has been ordered to pay $18 million in ACCC proceedings, after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider Belong.

A judge has questioned whether an investor in failed Banksia Securities can bring a case against a court-appointed receiver over his support for a class action settlement later found to involve deception by a team of lawyers. 

Another company is being pulled into a class action over a fatal bus crash in NSW's Hunter Valley, with infrastructure consulting firm AECOM planning a cross-claim against engineering firm GHD Australia.

Saying the appeals court committed "fundamental errors" in approaching their claim of loss, the applicants in failed cases against the Commonwealth Bank have appealed to the High Court, in a case that could clarity the elusive test for damages in shareholder class actions.

Rebel Wilson posted claims to her 11 million Instagram followers that the lead actress in her directorial debut had complained about a producer's harassment, while knowing the accusations were false, a defamation case alleges.

Looking to continue its hot streak of successful anti-greenwashing cases, the corporate regulator has taken Fiducian Investment Management to court over allegedly misleading representations about its ESG fund.

The receiver for Banksia Securities — the failed lender at the centre of a scandal-ridden class action — has argued a new case accusing him of serious misconduct is vexatious and wants a court to release him from the claims.