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.
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.
The Legal Practice Board in Western Australia has revealed more data, including lawyer data, was accessed during a 21 May cyberattack than was previously thought.