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Property developer Grocon has "reluctantly" put its construction business into administration, blaming the NSW government's handling of the Central Barangaroo development project which has sparked a $270 million lawsuit in the NSW Supreme Court.
Construction firm Icon Co has won a coverage dispute with its insurers over $31 million in losses stemming from Sydney's ill-fated Opal Tower, whose residents were evacuated after cracks appeared in the tower's walls on Christmas Eve in 2018.
The chief judge of the Federal Court has told Chubb Insurance to consider whether it wants to be held responsible for the commercial viability of Evolution Precast Systems, which has been denied coverage over the ill-fated Opal Tower and faces myriad legal claims.
The prefab concrete specialist behind Sydney's Opal Tower has filed a lawsuit against Chubb Insurance seeking to force the insurer to cover its costs of defending two proceedings over the ill-fated building.
A challenge to a judgment which found that one partner of a corporate insolvency firm "ambushed" the other to leave the business has been partially overturned by an appeals court.
A prominent Australian cancer researcher is suing the University of Technology Sydney for $744,000, alleging she was unfairly sacked after taking multiple periods of leave due to a physical disability.
The Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court told Lawyerly the court will adopt a flexible mixture of virtual and in-person hearings in the long term, as courts and the country slowly awaken from COVID-19 lockdown.
To avoid a creditor panic in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, the NSW Supreme Court has appointed a receiver instead of a liquidator to a rural hotel that is the centre of a deadlocked shareholder dispute over more than $2.7 million.
The Court of Appeal for the NSW Supreme Court on Saturday overturned a ruling that banned this weekend's Black Lives Matter protest, saying the rally was an authorised public assembly.