A judge has found there is a genuine dispute over an agreement for the recommissioning of Australian Pacific Coal’s Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley and refused to toss a suit alleging its ex-CEO breached her duty by entering into the agreement.
Office provider Servcorp may amend a lawsuit against former MLC Centre owner GPT alleging it failed to disclose plans for major redevelopment works on the Sydney CBD high-rise before they signed a lease in 2014.
The retail fund of real estate investor Charter Hall has put down $151 million for the purchase of four Bunnings Warehouse stores in Queensland and New South Wales.
Engineering company Monadelphous Group has entered an agreement to acquire Western Australia-based Kerman Contracting for $15 million.
A judge wants answers on why builder Geocon has filed a $4 million construction dispute over two Canberra developments in the Federal Court, where a separate fight with its joint venture partners is playing out.
Centuria has locked in a 10-year lease with Tesla at an industrial site in Derrimut, Victoria and is considering developing another data centre near an existing Telstra facility in the state.
The events described by an ex-Master Builders Association board member read like a best-seller, involving as they do boardroom drama, a secret investigation and an alleged whistleblower. But as thrilling as they sound, they don’t support orders for discovery against the construction lobby group, a judge has said.
A real estate agency in Victoria has lost a suit seeking the payment of its advertising costs from a former client, with a judge finding that writing ‘TBA’ in the contract defeated the consumer protection purpose of rules for real estate agents.
The federal government has approved a battery energy storage system in the Western Downs region in Queensland in just 19 days.
Alinta Energy has won an urgent injunction against former contractors working on the Wagerup power station in Western Australia, saying delays on the project have caused daily losses of $137,000 in revenue since mid-July.