A judge has refused a bid by the Port of Newcastle to make declarations following the dismissal of Glencore Coal’s case claiming it was overcharged $874,000 in wharfage fees, saying her judgment was clear on its face.
The Port Authority of NSW has won its claim for public interest immunity over six cabinet documents in a suit by a defunct sand importer over a lease agreement for a mulit-user facility at Glebe Island, with a judge finding they had little forensic value.
GFG unit Whyalla Ports has won its bid to rub out some expert evidence put forward by OneSteel about the costs of dismantling and removing assets from the site in their dispute over control of the assets at the South Australian port.
A judge has declined to order security in developer Gilridge Investments’ payment claim fight with Diamond Builders over a $5.3 million apartment project, saying the builder failed to show the penniless developer would not be able to cover its costs after completing the troubled project.
Developer Deicorp and Metrics Credit Partners are teaming up on a $1.8 billion apartment project in Five Dock in Sydney’s Inner West.
Gateway Capital has acquired a warehouse in Sydney’s Eastern Creek from private equity firm Blackstone for $75 million as part its plan to build a $800 million industrial and logistics portfolio.
A judge has approved a 35 per cent group costs order in a shareholder class action against WiseTech, but said the relatively high rate could be revisited by the court at a later stage in the case.
A court has ordered a stay of proceedings in a Melbourne property dispute, saying whether it could hear the case “better” than VCAT, as alleged by builder Brocon, was not the point.
On the first day of trial, a court has heard a class action over alleged negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system is a “world away” from a climate change class action that recently failed at trial.
Law firm HWL Ebsworth, which was found liable for negligence over advice on a Parramatta land development, has lost its opposition to a referee process for calculating damages.