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Fitout company Reward Group has lost its challenge to a payment claim adjudication by a subcontractor for refurbishment work on Sydney's luxury Sofitel Wentworth Hotel.

A judge has refused to quash a SOPA adjudication in favour of SD Civil Engineering against a developer for work on the Hills Hub project in the north west Sydney suburb of Rouse Hill.

Mallesons-represented Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has obtained financing for the next stage of the Supernode battery energy storage system project in Queensland.

Former directors of steelmaker Arrium have rejected shareholder class action claims that the company's collapse was foreseeable, calling claims they had their heads in the sand “arrant nonsense”. 

Hitting back at trial in a shareholder class action, software company Nuix has told a judge it was “completely unfounded” to allege auditor PwC did not push back on management’s claims about its budget.

US real estate firm Savills has failed to summarily dismiss a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, which a judge said if true "indicated a culture of discriminatory sexist behaviour of a serious kind".

A judge has given the nod to an amendment in a class action over Victoria's COVID-era hotel quarantine program that will exclude non-retail and hospitality businesses, but he won't make the order operate retrospectively.

A shareholder class action against Nuix is the first to test statutory due diligence defences available under the Corporations Act, a court heard Tuesday, when the class action took the court to internal emails describing the company as "tragically hopeless" at winning new business.

Alliance Living has failed on appeal of a security for costs order in a dispute with a subcontractor on a project to restore Sydney's Gaden House, with NSW's top court saying the builder's failure to pay a judgment debt was relevant.

KPMG failed to bring the necessary scepticism to the task of auditing failing steel manufacturer Arrium, instead leaving contradictory evidence unresolved and giving the company a clean bill of health, a shareholder class action has told the court.