Queensland

The funder behind a class action against the operator of Gladstone Port has bowed out after spending $30 million on the case, and is weighing proceedings to recover its sunk costs from the law firm that initially ran the litigation.

Seqwater has revealed the contractors shortlisted to run in a two-horse race to win the contract to design and build the Wyaralong water treatment plant in south east Queensland.

In a historic High Court decision, a Queensland man who suffered catastrophic injuries as a result of a hospital's negligence has won his bid for damages that allows him to receive medical care at home.

Queensland is facing a class action investigation on behalf of detainees who were allegedly subjected to isolation, excessive force and other harmful conditions at five youth detention centres in the state. 

A judge has found that builder DT Infrastructure’s application for adjudication of a $22 million payment claim against Downer EDI was discharged by Downer paying off a smaller claim of less than $1 million, which was the only amount expressly referred to in DTI’s application.

A Queensland property owner whose Morton Bay land was slated to be acquired by the council can recover more than just legal costs under the state's land acquisiton law, an appeals court has found.

A tribunal has dismissed a disciplinary case brought against a Brisbane lawyer for allegedly breaking the ‘no contact’ rule and speaking with another lawyer’s client in a debt recovery proceeding.

A former Peabody Energy employee who claims she was sacked after raising safety concerns has lost her bid to restrain MinterEllison from representing her former employer.

The Queensland Commissioner of State Revenue has lost an appeal against the Montessori Children’s Foundation after it refused the organisation's bid to be registered as a charity to avoid property taxes.

The federal government has agreed to cover almost half of the costs for building and upgrading 2032 Olympic Games venues after striking a deal with the Queensland government.