A group of insurers can’t join Northwest Rail Link joint venture partners MTR and UGL to a suit by CPB Contractors and John Holland over a $100 million policy, with a judge saying the joint venture’s interests in the case are commercial rather than legal.
A judge has recused herself from a case by liquidators for real estate investment firm Global Capital Property Fund against Point Bay Developments, after hearing the corporate regulator’s application to wind up the fund.
The liquidators of Falcon Capital, which is suspected of having misused $450 million in investor funds, have sued a Melbourne property developer, claiming he knowingly assisted Falcon to loan millions in trust money in a “dishonest and fraudulent design”.
The ACCC has given Coles the green light to acquire two leasehold interests to launch new supermarkets in Melbourne’s rapidly developing west after the supermarket giant agreed to divest its ownership and interest in its Kororoit Town Centre site.
Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue KC has been appointed to sit on the Victorian Court of Appeal, after nine years as the Commonwealth’s second law officer.
The publisher of The Australian has hit back at a defamation case by a former JLL executive, saying it was substantially true that he fondled a drunk junior female colleague’s breast at a strip club.
Orders proposed by Apple after a judge’s finding that the digital giant and rival Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct would “rob the court’s findings of their detail, their efficacy and their bite”, Epic Games has said.
Plus500 has lost its bid to permanently stay a class action by investors who lost money trading in highly leveraged financial products, with a court finding that the arbitration clause relied on by the online trader was unfair and void.
The High Court has revived a class action by small business owners over the interference caused by the construction of the Sydney light rail network.
The liquidators of a defunct developer FSM have lost their bid to access unredacted copies of emails between Ray White Capital and King & Wood Mallesons.
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