A judge hearing Maurice Blackburn’s application for a 30 per cent group costs order in a consumer class action against JB Hi-Fi has opined that an all-in group costs order was a better deal for group matters than the return in a typical funded case.
The funder backing a case against Transport for New South Wales over the compulsory acquisition of land for the Westconnex project has lost its $1 million breach of contract case against the plaintiffs.
A former EY partner who is in court over an alleged tax exploitation scheme has been banned for five years by the Tax Practitioner’s Board, which claims he engaged in “serious, deliberate and dishonest” misconduct.
A judge has rejected Parkview Constructions’ bid to tweak its cross-claims in a lawsuit over alleged combustible cladding at the Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park.
AkzoNobel has had some success in its late bid to have Japanese oil company INPEX produce documents filed in related proceedings against its insurers in their dispute over allegedly defective coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.
Property management company GPT group and Canadian-owned QuadReal property group have announced a $1 billion logistics joint venture.
The New South Wales Supreme Court of Appeal has clarified that payment claims and adjudication notices sent via email can constitute service and trigger relevant limitation periods under the Security of Payment Act.
Property fund manager CorVal has sold off the balance of the Gold Coast Corporate Centre in Bundall for $109 million, in the city’s largest ever office deal.
A settlement has been reached in a class action on behalf of people who purchased off-the-plan homes in the Clydesdale Estate in north-west Sydney.
Former Victorian Liberal party leader John Pesutto has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in costs in MP Moira Deeming’s defamation suit over statements found to have conveyed that she had links to neo-Nazis.
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