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A judge has criticised the parties in a land sale dispute over Sydney's Parklea Markets for failing to make progress to bring the case to a close, almost three months after a $4.25 million judgment was awarded to a company owned by local retail personality Con Constantine.
Hong Kong-based casino group Melco Resorts must hand over documents claimed to be privileged to a NSW public inquiry into James Packer's Crown Resorts, with an appeals court ruling the inquiry had the power of a royal commission.
The builder behind the ill-fated Opal Tower has lost its opposition in the NSW Supreme Court to a $3.9 million guarantee requested by the property's developer, after a judge found it had not proved compliance with its contractual obligations.
The NSW government has flagged a possible challenge to a class action over Sydney's $3 billion delayed light rail project as the four-week trial scheduled for June is pushed back another year to allow time for more discovery.
A Sydney rabbi who told the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he did not know touching a child's genitals was a crime has lost a defamation case against SBS and the Murdoch-owned Nationwide News, with the NSW Supreme Court finding that the media "accurately reported" the rabbi's own words.
An Ashurst partner that argued a judge was "confused" when he decided to appoint liquidators to his luxury Point Piper home in a dispute with an ex-judge neighbour has lost his challenge to the ruling.
A judge has consolidated competing shareholder class actions against builder Lendlease brought by rival plaintiffs law firms, but has rejected the firms' bid to jointly run the litigation and says one of them must go.
Construction firm Icon Co has pressed the Federal Court for an expedited hearing in its case against insurers Liberty Mutual Insurance and QBE over the 2018 Opal Tower disaster, saying it wants to resolve the matter before a class action brought by apartment owners in building progresses too far.
A Sydney-based development firm has won limited access to legal documents from Norton Rose Fulbright in a property dispute over redevelopment of the Sydney Fish Markets and a $2.3 million "secret commission".
Construction firm Icon Co has rejected QBE Underwriting's argument that exclusion clauses in coverage for Sydney's Opal Tower meant the insurer did not have to indemnity it after a series of major cracks in the building led to the evacuation of thousands of residents on Christmas Eve last year.