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Clifford Chance has hired the head of Mallesons' real estate group and his team of five to lead its growing real estate practice in Australia, on the heels of hiring lawyers from Pinsent Masons and HSF Kramer to kickstart its construction and environment teams.

Coles Group's proposed acquisition of a leasehold interest in a Kalgoorlie supermarket and liquor store site would substantially lessen competition in the retail supply of groceries in the region, the competition cop says.

A bill introduced by the South Australian government that would retrospectively strip workers of the right to earn Sundary penalty rates has been slammed by a law firm bringing class actions against retail and fast food giants.

A traditional owner has launched legal action against the Victorian government, challenging the approval of a floodplain engineering project at Nyah on the Murray River.

Defence lawyers are bracing for a wave of class actions over companies’ use of generative artificial intelligence, with privacy, discrimination, consumer, product liability and shareholder claims expected.

The Tasmanian Government is planning to replace the state's 51-year-old Aboriginal Heritage Act, but legal and Indigenous groups say the bill does not go far enough.

An environmental group has criticised the NSW opposition's plan to scale back the New England renewable energy zone, calling it an “irresponsible backflip”.

A parliamentary committee has called on the ACCC to investigate Apple's digital payments market power, finding that the sector is "anti-competitive, opaque and complex".

A shareholder class action against former directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco has settled on the eve of trial, a year after KPMG reached a settlement.

A judge has been asked to approve a revised $18.1 million settlement in an underpayments class action against Sydney Trains, reached after the registration of 260 new group members pushed the settlement above the agreed cap.