New South Wales

A subsidiary of gold mining giant Newmont has been hit with a class action alleging residents near its Cadia mine in Orange, NSW have been exposed to a "toxic trifecta" of air, land and water pollution.

A criminal barrister who has taken heat for his criticism of Israel has been sworn in as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court, with the new judge describing the importance of the justice system in a time "where evidence is often ignored or derided and truth is whatever it is called to be".

Property investor Charter Hall has dropped $152 million for a 50 per cent stake in Western Sydney University's Parramatta campus. 

A leading construction and infrastructure lawyer with major projects and disputes experience will head up Jones Day's Sydney office as one of the firm's new partners-in-charge.

A First Nations elder has defeated a developer's appeal against a local council's decision to reject plans for a $30 million housing estate in Lismore, with a court agreeing the development would adversely impact Aboriginal cultural heritage.

Real estate fund manager Charter Hall has reportedly acquired a 50 per cent stake in Sydney's O'Connell Street precinct from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for $500 million.

A tribunal has found that Southern Cross University did not discriminate against a former employee by requesting medical evidence before providing him with an ergonomic chair during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Two Liberty Steel companies want a case brought in NSW by administrators for collapsed supply chain finance company Greensill to be put on hold while a related case in the UK is on foot.

Lawsuits against a Chinese real estate investor and his mother involving transactions linked to Sam Fayad's Dyldam Group have been paused pending criminal proceedings against the pair in Hong Kong.

A court has upheld a three-year time limit attached to a council's development consent for a local distribution centre at a proposed industrial precinct in Tamworth, NSW.