The High Court has rejected a special leave application by the owners of land acquired to build a Melbourne freeway that sought to overturn an “erroneous” appeals court decision which left them with $2 million for land worth over $30 million.
The NSW’s Land and Environment Court has approved plans to amend an approved $4.5 million development application to tear down a $16.3 million Mosman property to make way for a new home and pool.
ACE Power and Osaka Gas have won fast-track approval for a 141-megawatt solar farm and battery energy storage system in NSW, with the government signing off on the project in just 19 days.
Thompson Geer has nabbed a partner and a special counsel from Baker McKenzie to grow its Melbourne-based banking and finance team.
Twenty-three barristers in NSW have joined the silk ranks, including a leading defamation lawyer who was on the Fairfax legal team that defeated accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation suit.
Commonwealth Bank’s New Zealand unit, ASB Bank, has agreed to pay $119.35 million to settle a class action alleging it failed to repay fees and interest wrongly charged to 150,000 customers who took out home or personal loans.
Green iron startup Element Zero is challenging a bid by Fortescue for access to nine million seized documents in their trade secrets spat, saying its rival has not met the test for proving inadequate discovery of material.
A judge has ordered federal prosecutors to drop a criminal tax fraud case against a medical researcher, finding an ATO officer lied and tampered with evidence during the probe.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has approved Cboe’s application to list companies on its platform, in direct competition with market operators, including the Australian Securities Exchange.
A Victorian man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for trading on insider information ahead of the public announcement of a $20 million share placement for medical cannabis company Cann Group.
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