Litigation

Transport for NSW has asked the High Court to weigh in on when land is acquired for a 'public purpose', in a dispute over the value of land acquired near the Western Sydney Airport.

Commercial tenants of Quest Dockland’s Bourke Street apartment complex have filed proceedings against 45 landlords, claiming their requests for rent relief during the COVID-19 pandemic were ignored. 

The owners of the Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have lost their bid for preliminary discovery related to the likely recovery in their $356 million claim against builder Probuild. 

The owners of luxury fashion department store Harrolds are facing a $10 million lawsuit over alleged unpaid rent on the business' flagship Collins Street store in Melbourne.

Australia's largest toll road operator, Transurban, has been ordered to pay compensation to ConnectEast in a dispute over an annual services fee of $10 million.

The owners corporation of a Meriton apartment block in Sydney can add late evidence of alleged defects, despite a judge calling the case "an example of how proceedings in the Technology and Construction List should not be conducted”.

Engineering firm Destec has lost its bid to throw out a trade secrets case by Mineral Resources, with a judge giving the mining giant another chance to particularise its claims.

The builders involved in Adelaide's $1.85 billion Royal Adelaide Hospital have lost their appeal of a decision blocking their bid to access documents from the state government on parliamentary privilege grounds.

The funder behind a class action against Transport for NSW by residents displaced by the construction of Sydney’s WestConnex tunnel has been ordered to pay $134,000  to cover the class action’s costs after it brought a failed action to rescind trust funds.

US-based satellite broadband provider Viasat has lost its bid to appeal an arbitral ruling that rejected its damages claim against the subcontractor on a Department of Defence project.