Mobil Oil has agreed to pay a $16 million penalty after admitting it ran false ads in far North Queensland claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel with certain benefits, when in fact it was suppling ordinary fuel.
A class action on behalf of thousands of victims of the December 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire has reached a confidential settlement with two individuals, while claims worth $200 million against SA Power Networks have proceeded to trial.
A Sydney developer has won a dispute with the Inner West Council over its Annandale housing project application, despite a court finding it would cause a loss of affordable housing.
Law firm HFW has expanded its global construction practice by snagging a leading construction lawyer and his team to capitalise on Queensland’s construction boom.
Billboard company Manboom has suffered a loss in its case against Jemena Gas alleging the presence of underground gas infrastructure at a site in Mascot, NSW that supplies gas to 1.6 million customers amounts to trespassing.
Cromwell Property Group will acquire a 20 per cent stake in Straits Real Estate’s $470 million Australian industrial portfolio.
In a show of the office market’s recovery, GPT Group has reportedly sold 750 Collins Street in Melbourne’s Docklands to a private buyer for $383 million.
A solicitor who attributed a barrister’s submission about his client’s capacity to a Supreme Court judge in a letter to a costs assessor has lost an appeal of a NSW Law Society decision to caution him.
SkyCity has lost its bid to dismiss a claim by a former employee who alleges he was discriminated against because he was a parent of a newborn child and dismissed because he made whistleblower reports.
Wotton Kearney has nabbed a cyber law expert from Colin Biggers & Paisley to join its partnership.
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