New South Wales

After selling his $26 million Rose Bay mansion to AsheMorgan principal Michael Rothner in 2023, options trader David Waterhouse has levied allegations of “deliberate bad faith conduct”, on the first day of trial in a case over the mysterious removal of trees on a neighbouring property.

The NSW Law Society's unusual approach to a proposed case against a law firm principal for a clerk's alleged embezzlement of client funds means insurer Lawcover's summary dismissal bid must fail, a judge has said.

Octopus Australia has reached financial close on its $900 Blind Creek solar farm and battery project in NSW's Southern Tablelands region, clearing the way for construction to begin.

Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.

A Sydney developer has won a dispute with the Inner West Council over its Annandale housing project application, despite a court finding it would cause a loss of affordable housing. 

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not 'in force'.

A solicitor who attributed a barrister's submission about his client's capacity to a Supreme Court judge in a letter to a costs assessor has lost an appeal of a NSW Law Society decision to caution him.

Developer Bloc is locked in a dispute with a contractor on the Watervue residential development in Newcastle, who it has accused of carrying out defective piling works.

A builder has lost an appeal arguing that a RW Capital unit was bound by an alleged contract to develop land in northern Sydney, said to be worth $25.75 million, after the trial judge found the claim was “doomed to fail”.

The lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Transport for New South Wales over the compulsory acquisition of land for the WestConnex road project have won their bid to toss a third suit brought by the funder which backed the case.