German car hire company SIXT has attacked the Darwin International airport owner’s construction of their lease contract in a $1.9 million spat over the appropriate formula for rent calculations, saying it was trying to have the “best of both worlds”.
Trial in a case by the Wilderness Society challenging Santos’ plans for its Reindeer gas field kicked off Tuesday, with counsel for the activist group saying the energy giant needed to show it coud cover decommissioning costs.
A Woolworths entity must hand over documents concerning its plan to close unprofitable Big W stores in a stoush with a Brisbane shopping centre owner over an alleged breach of a 20-year lease.
Martinus Rail has won access to some documents produced in a dispute with logistics company Qube over the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal project, despite claims by the logistics company that the material was privileged.
Retail property group Vicinity and GIC’s Ipoh have won $470,000 from a former tenant at Sydney’s Galeries Shopping Centre to cover unpaid rent, damages and fitout restoration costs.
Property developer Ascot Capital has acquired a Queensland industrial portfolio from construction materials company Wagners in a $43 million leaseback deal.
A defects class action against Ford that’s been on foot since 2016 is headed to the Full Court again, after a judge recently ruled on two remaining issues in dispute following a High Court ruling on on how reduction in value damages should be calculated.
Saying swear words are now part of the common vernacular, IP Australia has cleared a vitamin company’s foul- mouthed trademark for registration, on the proviso that the branding is restricted to goods aimed at adults.
The Commonwealth has appealed a ruling that found the ATO knowingly received millions misappropriated by a former Kupang Resources director in order to satisfy a tax debt against him and skewered the office’s “policy of wilful blindness” in pursuit of the debt.
A judge has applied a recent High Court decision, which had a significant effect on survivor claims in Australia, in a historic sexual abuse case against the Marist Brothers, despite no explicit pleading of the necessary claim.
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