Victoria

Spanish multinational electrical giant Iberdrola has been selected to design and operate the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West transmission project, part of the state's pipeline of new energy infrastructure projects.

The director of collapsed Shangri-La Construction is personally liable for the $3.2 million in costs of rectification work on external cladding at an apartment complex in southeast Melbourne, a judge has found.

A company linked to the Victorian Liberal Party that provided a $1.5 million advance to former party leader John Pesutto says a case launched to block the loan should be thrown out.

A judge has ordered a flat contingency fee at a rate below the maximum sought by the firm running a class action against Mineral Resources, agreeing with a colleague that recent shareholder class action losses don't justify a higher percentage.

Waste management firm Veolia has agreed to pay $1 million after admitting that it failed to use required odour source controls for its landfill site in Hampton Park, Victoria.

Herald Sun articles about Victorian Deputy Liberal Leader Sam Groth's relationship with his wife, Brittany, are "precisely " the kind of journalism protected by an exemption in new privacy laws, a court has heard.

The parties in a class action against agricultural giant GrainCorp over alleged noise and odour pollution from a factory in rural Victoria have failed to seal the deal on a settlement reached last month.

A tribunal has ordered a defunct builder of a Dandenong apartment complex to pay $2.9 million in damages for a slew of defects and interest on a loan needed to replace combustible cladding.

A judge has made contempt findings against a real estate agent who attached discovered documents to emails that railed against alleged collusion between a local council and the EPA, but stopped short of finding he intimidated witnesses in a spat over a Ballarat development.

The publisher of the Herald Sun has filed a strike-out application against novel privacy claims by the wife of Victorian Liberals' deputy leader Sam Groth, saying it was exempt as a news outlet.