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A court has upheld a panel’s determination of the fees payable by media mogul Bruce Gordon’s company Birketu to his former lawyers, following an eight-year dispute.

As proof of its popularity as a class action jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Victoria will hear opening submissions in three class action trials on Monday, an unprecedented number in a single day for the court.

Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.

A trial in the state of Victoria's dispute with the owners of Pakenham Place Shopping Centre over a compulsory land acquisition has been vacated.

Web Travel Group has been hit with a class action by investors who say the value of their shares plummeted after misleading 2025 earnings guidance was corrected.

Law firm Cornwalls is not on the hook for the Commonwealth Bank's costs in a negligence suit by a former client, a judge has found.

Monadelphous has won the post-trial reversal of a ruling that excluded some of its evidence in a $2.6 million dispute over alleged corrosion damage to a marine barge.

A Lucent Group vehicle is suing contractor Wolf Construction to stop it from enforcing a $379,000 SOPA ruling for works at a townhouse precinct development at the site of a former abattoir in Northcote, Melbourne.

A judge has refused to shift the trial dates in a dispute regarding a strata plan renewal for a Chatswood apartment block to accommodate a solicitor's honeymoon.

A lawyer for federal environment minister Murray Watt has complained about delays in a proceeding by the developers of a rejected proposal for two 40-storey towers in Parramatta, telling a court a revised proposal should not be "mixed up" with the case.