A judge has ruled the liquidator of Special Gold can advance claims against Dyldam Developments, which the collapsed Sydney developer has called “hopeless”.
The engineering company behind the world-first Kwinana energy transformation hub in WA has lost a bid to strike out fraud claims from a case by the CFMEU over an enterprise agreement covering maintenance workers.
Indicative of Australia’s housing crisis is new data showing a drop in apartment construction, according to the country’s peak building group, with last year the worst for higher-density home building since 2011.
A survey initiated by NSW Supreme Court Chief Justice Andrew Bell into the state’s practical legal training has found the mandatory program, which can cost up to $12,000, lacks academic rigour and is “rife with cheating”.
A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over alleged loss-making Pie Face stores has been ordered to hand over $3.7 million in security, with a judge finding it was not likely to stultify the class action.
Brokerage firm International Capital Markets says a class action over risky financial products must put up or shut up when it comes to claims in the case that neither applicant has standing to bring.
Clorox has been hit with a $8.25 million penalty for representing to consumers that certain GLAD garbage bags were sourced from plastic fished from the ocean.
The corporate regulator has brought enforcement action against Wiluna Mining, accusing the gold mining operation of misleading conduct over a capital raising a month before it went under.
That it once had a $100,000 bank cheque is not sufficient evidence to prove a funder behind a class action over the $16 billion WestConnex tunnel can meet a costs order in a feud with the applicants, an appeals court has said.