Air conditioning wholesaler Polyaire has been ordered to pay $15.2 million in damages in relation to a 2018 fire at a Seven Hills, NSW, factory complex it leased caused by its placement of wooden pallets in a open yard.
Real estate investment trust Dexus Industria REIT has agreed to acquire two warehouses in Melbourne’s south-east for a combined price of $47.5 million.
Mayfield Developments says the High Court should overturn a finding that NSW Ports was protected by derivative Crown immunity in entering allegedly uncompetitive agreements to privatise two ports, saying the decision could have “startling” consequences such as allowing the state to devise cartel arrangements.
On the eve of a Federal Court bankruptcy hearing, Sydney-based publican Jon Adgemis and founder of Public Hospitality Group has declared bankruptcy, days after five of his pubs were placed into receivership.
Warning of the propensity for major events procurement to attract cartel conduct, the competition regulator is encouraging the Queensland government to share data on bids for Brisbane Olympics projects.
A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers.
The Commonwealth has been hit with a class action on behalf of thousands of Indigenous people living in remote areas who took part in the “discriminatory and unjust” Work for the Dole program.
Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has apologised for a 13-hour outage Triple Zero across three states that has been linked to the deaths of three people, blaming the outage on a “people issue”.
A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC’s case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.
A Melbourne developer has sued its director, alleging that he unlawfully issued himself shares in an industrial estate development in Epping using a “simulated” signature, a claim which the director denies.
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