Litigation

Hilton has lost its challenge to a $173 million tax adjustment from the 2015 sale of the Sydney Hilton Hotel, with a judge finding the transaction was entered into for the dominant purpose of obtaining a tax benefit. 

Sand importer Metro Environmental Logistics has foreshadowed an appeal after losing its case against the Port Authority of NSW over a lease agreement for a multi-user facility in Sydney Harbour.

Winslow Constructors has accused Victoria’s transport authority of singling it out in litigation over alleged road defects, questioning why contractors responsible for adjacent roads have not faced similar legal action.

In reply submissions filed with the High Court, a class action against Homes Victoria over the demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne says residents had no real choice but to vacate and slams the government's attempts to minimise the impact of its decision.

A builder has been ordered to pay owners of a Cremorne house $1.25 million in damages over defective renovations.

A judge has rejected environmental group Save Wallum’s lawsuit against the developers of a housing estate in Brunswick Heads, finding the group failed to prove the development was likely to have a significant impact on threatened species.

A judge has signed off on a partial settlement in a class action brought by the owners of lots in an allegedly shoddy townhouse development in Sydney.

A "practice of prudence" required a judge to recuse himself from a $1 billion lawsuit over the Callide power station, CS Energy said Monday.

A company that says it loaned millions to the owner of a Brighton property has sued HWL Ebworth for negligence, alleging the firm failed to advise on “patent ambiguity” in a loan agreement that caused it to lose $2 million. 

Richard Crookes Constructions has failed to permanently stay SafeWork NSW proceedings filed after a section of a formwork deck collapsed at a Sydney worksite for a student accommodation in 2023.