Litigation

Japanese company Inpex has filed an application with the Fair Work Commission seeking urgent orders blocking protected industrial action at its Ichthys LNG facilities. 

A new $16 million day hospital built below a Fitness Cartel in Perth's Osborne Park has succeeded in maintaining an injunction against the gym, granted after the hospital reported that constant noise and vibrations were disrupting medical procedures.

Preventing a DOCA for the Milligan-owned developer of the troubled $1.8 billion Halo Tower skyscraper in Sydney could cause $100 million in losses and jeopardise a sale to Cbus set to settle in July, a court has heard.

Clive Palmer's resort company Palmer Leisure Coolum has entered a guilty plea to one count of breaching takeover law arising from the proposed acquisition of The President’s Club.

A judge has refused to allow Forte Construction to file a late amended defence after it failed to comply with three orders in a $3 million case brought by the liquidators of collapsed real estate fund manager iProsperity, saying the court was being treated with “absolute contempt”.

Twenty-one former property owners at the site of the troubled 55-storey Halo Project skyscraper in the Sydney CBD have won access to a contract entered with Cbus Property shortly before developer FT Sydney went into administration. 

Dexus has stood down executives, sacked its advisers and launched a review of its $7 billion infrastructure division, following last week's judgment upholding the validity of a default notice by Melbourne Airport's operator.

The operator of Perth Airport has filed an appeal after United Petroleum won its case alleging it was induced to enter into a $900,000 lease and construction agreement with promises of redevelopment at the site.

Shell is seeking to recover $83 million from former joint venture partners Woodside and Paladin after the Commonwealth imposed a levy to cover the cost of decommissioning an abandoned offshore oil platform off the coast of Darwin.

NSW builder Hort Constructions is seeking urgent orders to restrain Iluka Resources from calling on a $1.45 million bank guarantee, claiming the mining company is seeking the funds for an improper purpose.