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Victoria's State Revenue Office must pay the bulk of costs incurred by shopping centre landlord Vicinity in a successful challenge to $82.5 million in stamp duty slapped on land occupied by Myer and Emporium in Melbourne's city centre.
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Australian building materials giant James Hardie will acquire US-based home decking provider AZEK in a nearly $14 billion merger.
The funder that backed a shareholder class action against engineering firm CIMIC that settled for $45.25 million will take a cut to its 25 per cent commission, but wants the court to find the commission would otherwise have been reasonable.
A group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy has filed an appeal after he lost a challenge to his compensation determination, 12 years after the case settled.
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Former directors of collapsed Sydney developer Dyldam have been targeted by a liquidator over claims allegedly worth at least $33 million.
The federal government has launched a cross-claim against private security companies G4S and ACM in a class action on behalf of asylum seekers held in two immigration detention centres in South Australia.
Payday lender Sunshine Loans has lost an appeal after it was ruled liable for “wrongheaded” conduct, with an appeals court finding that counsel showed an “egregious failure” to confine the case to the real issues.
A judge has refused to vacate a trial next month in a case against a law firm and a barrister by a former client, despite the agreement of all parties to push off the hearing.
The ACCC has found Coles and Woolworths operate as an oligopoly with "little incentive" to compete but has stopped short of recommending a break-up or similar strong measures, saying there is no "silver bullet".
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Private equity firm EMR Capital has been ordered to pay $12.5 million under a controversial share sales agreement for a Queensland copper mine.