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A class action over alleged botched cosmetic surgeries can drop claims against one surgeon, but the doctor will remain a party so other defendants can point the finger at him.

Western Australia and its public housing landlord have denied a class action’s allegations that Indigenous people living in remote communities were overcharged for substandard public housing.

On the first day of trial in the Tax Office's case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was "risky but not illegal". 

Property group AVJennings has accepted a trimmed $365 million takeover offer from private equity-backed AVID Property after failing to receive a binding offer from Singaporean developer Ho Bee Land.

Japanese property group Daibiru Corporation has made its second investment in Sydney, acquiring a CBD office tower from real estate investment manager Investa.

Tamworth Regional Council has won its bid to be joined to an environmental group's appeal of the approval for the controversial Hills of Gold wind farm.

A Federal Court judge might be called as a witness in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's bid for a retrial in his failed defamation case against Nine.

A former Cushman & Wakefield managing director has sued the commercial real estate broker, alleging he was unfairly terminated to prevent him from keeping a $1.5 million sign-on bonus.

A judge has thrown out Clive Palmer's lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton after finding the claims had no reasonable prospects of success.

ASX's management of operational risk that led to December's CHESS settlement outage has the corporate regulator and the Reserve Bank "increasingly concerned" and "deeply disappointed".