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Businesses in two cases against Lloyd's and QBE over COVID-19 losses have failed in an appeal of a ruling stripping the suits of class action status.

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

As proof of its popularity as a class action jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Victoria will hear opening submissions in three class action trials on Monday, an unprecedented number in a single day for the court.

Inpex says damages against AkzoNobel could increase "very significantly" if the court adopts its position on a referee's report and it succeeds on liability in its suit over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys gas project.

Monadelphous Group subsidiary Kerman has secured a $165 million Rio Tinto contract for the design and construction of facilities at the mining giant's Brockman Syncline 1 project in the Pilbara.

Clyde & Co has recruited a disputes partner with extensive experience in complex litigation in the infrastructure and energy and resources sectors.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $7.9 billion to resolve multi-district litigation in the US alleging its talcum powder caused cancer, a settlement Shine Lawyers said was a positive development as it readies for a first case management hearing in its class action.

The site owner of a proposed shopping centre in Melton must return $1.5 million to a defunct developer that allegedly breached a $30 million land sale contract, an appeals court has found.

Metals Manufactures has launched legal action for $33 million in damages against Fletcher Building and unit Crane Group, saying it was misled into paying $170 million for plumbing supply business Tradelink.

A court has rejected a bid to undo the state significant development status of a proposed 37-storey, 100-unit shop-top housing development in Northern Sydney.