Engineer Monadelphous has lost a fight that will affect its ability to run a limitations defence in a suit over alleged defects in a sewage plant upgrade on the Sunshine Coast.
Singapore-based Keppel REIT and Australian asset manager MA Financial have paid $525 million to acquire the Top Ryde City Shopping Centre in Sydney’s northwest.
A joint venture of AGL Energy and Someva Renewables has been given the government’s go-ahead for a new wind farm in NSW’s Riverina region that is expected to power almost 600,000 homes.
Builder Shinetec has argued $48 million paid to the developer of a $185 million project in Sydney by Bank of China under a standby letter of credit was money it lent to the collapsed developer, with a judge seeming to agree the sum would otherwise be a windfall.
Canberra builder Geocon has brought a lawsuit against the developers of the Aspen and Establishment apartment buildings in Canberra, claiming it is owed $4 million in construction payments.
In the latest chapter of a long-running dispute, a developer has failed in its appeal bid to tear down the historic Subiaco Theatre in Western Australia, despite raising public safety concerns.
A judge has declined a creditor’s bid to wind up Victorian builder Roberts Construction Group, finding that the application relied on a “very modest” debt and involved a solicitor’s email “cast in threatening terms”.
The developers of an industrial-chic Melbourne apartment building have won a fight against the building’s owners corporation over a lease that allowed Vodafone to store telecommunications equipment on the roof.
The trustee for shareholders that want to retain their Dexus-managed stake in Australia Pacific Airports Corporation can’t be separately represented from the selling group, a judge has ruled in a case that pits APAC’s investors against each other.
Engineering firm GHD Australia is the latest company to be pulled into a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, a court has heard.