Victoria

After a years-long legal battle, a judge has thrown out an unfair dismissal suit by a former TechnologyOne executive, finding he was lawfully terminated for failing to adapt to the company's management structure.

The liquidators of Falcon Capital, which is suspected of having misused $450 million in investor funds, have sued a Melbourne property developer, claiming he knowingly assisted Falcon to loan millions in trust money in a “dishonest and fraudulent design”. 

The ACCC has given Coles the green light to acquire two leasehold interests to launch new supermarkets in Melbourne's rapidly developing west after the supermarket giant agreed to divest its ownership and interest in its Kororoit Town Centre site.

Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue KC has been appointed to sit on the Victorian Court of Appeal, after nine years as the Commonwealth's second law officer.

Logistics giant Qube has shed its interest in a 202-hectare property at Beveridge in Melbourne's north to Hong Kong-based asset manager C Capital for $111 million.

An appeals court has quashed the conviction of the former CEO of Bruck Textile Technologies, finding it was not open to the court to convict him despite his guilty plea.

A medical assessment served under the Wrongs Act by a patient of Dr Daniel Lanzer needed to come to the attention of the surgeon himself, not just his solicitors, despite the lawyers being authorised to receive other documents in the case, an appeals court has found. 

James Merlino, the former deputy for ex-Victorian premier Dan Andrews and current Rest Super chair, has been appointed chair at plaintiff law firm Slater & Gordon.

Agricultural giant Graincorp has resolved an application for personal costs against a solicitor, which it sought after trial in a class action over alleged noise and odour pollution from a Victorian factory was vacated and an in-principle settlement did not proceed. 

An investment company which retained Hall & Wilcox to advise on the sale of a Mornington Peninsula shopping centre has sued the law firm for millions, alleging due diligence failures in relation to asbestos at the property.