An appeals court has ruled against developer Universal, which resisted a payment claim under the SOP Act, saying it couldn’t raise a defence pointing to the contract after failing to serve a payment schedule.
A leading class actions lawyer has made the jump from Corrs Chambers Westgarth to Clifford Chance, drawn by the firm’s global reach.
The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower.
Pithy one-liners and even pithier rulings are just part of NSW Supreme Court judge James Stevenson’s legacy as he steps down from the bench, bringing to an end a class of judicial staffers known as “Team Stevo”
A judge has stayed engineering firm Clough’s $54 million cross-claim against its former joint venture partner on the EnergyConnect transmission project, Elecnor, saying the claim must be sent to arbitration.
After describing the $836 million project for a new Sydney Fish Market as “an architecturally designed death knell to the NSW seafood industry”, the market operator has mostly lost its application to make Infrastructure NSW hand over 100 project documents.
While parts of the business have been placed in administration, Roberts Co has been selected as development manager and early contractor for a project on Sydney’s Macquarie Street.
A former Turner Freeman client is seeking to appeal a District Court decision summarily dismissing his professional negligence case against the firm and a silk over a dispute with an owners corporation.
Entertainment giant EVT has put its landmark Sydney CBD Event Cinemas complex on the market.
Owners of apartments at Meriton’s Alcove St Ives will fight a defence by the developer’s building unit they say goes against court orders made allowing them to greatly expand their case.