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A tribunal has found Deloitte’s cost-benefit analysis on new energy efficiency standards is protected from disclosure under Freedom of Information laws because it contains trade secrets.

Victoria will kick off the country's first offshore wind auction in August, after it was delayed last year.

Centuria Capital has scooped up a Chadstone shopping centre anchored by Bunnings, the Good Guys and JB Hi-Fi for $86 million. 

NSW Supreme Court Chief Justice Andrew Bell has been awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for his “enormous contributions” to the state and for fostering an “open relationship” between the court and legal professionals.

An adjudicator's decision in favour of A1 Home Builders for work done on a residential property has been declared void after a court found that a crucial notice had been sent to a misspelled email address. 

The co-head of Allens' equity capital markets team will make the jump to Clayton Utz, just months after Clayton Utz poached a leading private equity lawyer from its rival. 

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost its bid to add a new claim to its case against builder Devine, with a judge saying the developer was attempting to tell a “fundamentally different story” to the existing case, weeks out from trial.

A court has agreed to hear the Parramatta Eels’ case against former player Zac Lomax on an expedited basis, as the club seeks to enforce a contractual term keeping him off the list of rival teams after an unsuccessful mediation with the Melbourne Storm.  

A judge has allowed a novel negligence claim in a class action over the NSW Liberal Party’s failure to lodge paperwork for local candidates, saying a High Court ruling that rejected a duty of care to protect against economic loss did not doom the claim. 

A court has granted gold milling company Golden Mile leave to redraft its statement of claim in a dispute against Lakewood Mining over Lakewood’s alleged conversion of fresh waste rock.