New South Wales

A Sydney barrister found guilty of professional misconduct after falsely claiming in Family Court proceedings that he received $70,000 in inheritance when in fact he had received almost $230,000 has been reprimanded.

Macquarie International Health Clinic has lost the latest chapter in its decades long battle over the proposed development of a private hospital within the precincts of Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

The company that paid $60 million for bankrupt Jon Adgemis' Noah's Backpackers hotel in Bondi Beach has been ordered to cough up $6 million in GST refunds to a Singapore special purpose vehicle that arranged a loan for the purchase.

A judge has awarded investment firm Merricks Capital $46 million in its lawsuit against tech entrepreneur Peter Crown and his wife over a loan to purchase land in the Southern Highlands.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to temporararily block developer Clarence Property from building artificial frog ponds in Brunswick Heads as part of a 123-lot residential development.

The High Court has been asked to revive a class action brought by a postgrad student who alleges the research stipend he received from Sydney University was less than minimum wage.

Hearing a fight over $40 million in costs in a case over the sale of Dexus shares in Australia Pacific Airport Corporation, a judge has said he doubts the airport operator can recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on a media consultant during the dispute.

A judge overseeing the Hunter Valley bus crash class action has questioned why “reputable law firms” have failed to comply with discovery orders, and warned he might pull a Hammerschlag and give the applicants everything.

Raysons Constructions has successfully appealed a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision in a fight with a Sydney owners corporation over major defects at an apartment complex in Meadowbank.

FX Group Holdings has partly succeeded in its appeal of a finding that it owes private equity firm CPE Capital $96.89 million in a dispute over a profit-sharing agreement tied to the sale of CPE’s stake in trading platform Pepperstone.