The liquidator of a company created to invest in an Adelaide building has failed in a High Court bid to reinstate a finding that the mortgage over the property was an unreasonable director-related transaction.
Australian Retirement Trust, a superannuation fund which manages over $350 billion in retirement savings, will sink nearly $1 billion into a Macquarie fund that’s investing in solar, wind and energy storage projects.
Climate investment firm Wollemi Capital has closed the acquisition of MPower, a transaction that will pave the way for a $100 million pipeline of renewable energy projects.
The High Court has been asked to clarify the jurisdictional reach of the Victoria Supreme Court to hear planning disputes, in a spat between the state and supermarket operator IGA.
The High Court is poised to provide guidance on the defence of honest concurrent use in trade mark disputes, agreeing to hear an appeal by buy now, pay later giant Zip Co in its fight with Firstmac over the ‘Zip’ trade mark.
Australia’s most-decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost his bid for special leave from the High Court to appeal a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
A judge has ordered Adina West Melbourne to pay $2.3 million to Trenerry’s West End LandCo, including $1 million in unpaid rent, despite finding COVID-19 lockdowns were a force majeure event under the lease.
A lease granted to developer Quarry Street over the site of the abandoned Paddington Bowling Club did not constitute use of the land under Aboriginal land rights legislation, a High Court majority has found.
The corporate regulator has won the High Court’s leave to challenge a ruling for cryptocurrency firm Block Earner that it argues will allow future crypto products to evade the rules.
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.