Victoria

Victoria’s State Revenue Office has gone to the High Court in its battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

Amazon has signed another power purchase agreement with European Energy for its Winton North solar and battery project in Victoria, adding to the $2.8 billion the tech company has invested in Australian renewable projects since 2020. 

A Victorian law that came into effect this month will fundamentally change how NDAs relating to workplace sexual harassment can be used in the state, says Kingston Reid's Katie Sweatman and Aneisha Bishop.

A traditional owner has launched legal action against the Victorian government, challenging the approval of a floodplain engineering project at Nyah on the Murray River.

A recycling company has lost its bid to recover millions of dollars from its insurers, with a judge finding the insurers were not on the hook for losses arising from an EPA cleanup.

In a High Court feud between Sorrento neighbors, the prominent Valmorbida family has argued an appeal by Stellar co-founder Simon Pitard and wife Sky would have to overturn longstanding doctrine on rights of long use in order to prevail.

The owner of Northcote Shopping Centre in Melbourne has lost its bid for leave to appeal in a fight with budget supermarket Aldi over whether clauses imposing a cap on rental increases is contrary to the Retail Leases Act.

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry has warned taxpayers could be left footing the bill for offshore oil and gas infrastructure decommissioning, despite existing rules requiring titleholders to pay.

Legislation introduced in Victoria that would require companies to allow employees to work from home two days a week -- and to cover the reasonable costs of the arrangement -- would give employees in the same workforce different rights, according to a legal expert.

A court has found a Pelligra Group unit validly terminated leases for offices in a Melbourne CBD building rented by Birdies Mini Golf owner Stephanie Doyle after she failed to meet a deadline for agreement on floorplans.