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The former owner of 28 hectares of land in Western Sydney has sued Sydney Water, alleging it deliberately sought to prevent the sale of the property on the open market and disputing a $347 million valuation. 

Westpoint Shopping Centre in Western Sydney has been sold for $900 million, in Australia's largest individual retail asset transaction.

The plaintiff in a negligence case against Waller Legal has told a court the firm ignored his “blindingly clear” claim for loss of earning capacity in a historic sexual abuse case.

Work on the country’s biggest renewables project has again halted after the AWU again raised safety concerns about the use of ‘refuge chambers’ on the project. 

Lendlease's appeal of the NSW Valuer General's land value determinations of luxury residential tower One Circular Quay has prevailed.

The plaintiffs in a shareholder class action against Lendlease have lost their bid for further discovery from the builder, with a judge taking a swipe for their “flagrant" failure to meet deadlines.

Real estate lawyer Vicki Aron has joined Clayton Utz's Sydney office as a partner after seven years at Ashurst.

The plaintiff in a negligence case against Waller Legal has failed in his last-minute call to vacate the trial to obtain more documents, an exercise a judge said would "make a mockery of the Civil Procedure Act".

Defending a class action brought over Victoria Police’s use of force against protestors at a mining conference in 2019, the state has told a court the case would centre on when peaceful protesting crosses a line.

Residents of a property near the historic Healesville Railway Line have failed in their bid to halt works proceeding on weekends and out of hours, with a judge calling their complaints “oversensitive”.