Litigation

A landlord in eastern Melbourne has filed proceedings alleging a tenant breached its lease by converting a cafe into a smoking lounge.

Builder Devakon has been ordered to pay $120,000 to remedy defects in an apartment development in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern East, dodging the owners’ bid for damages of almost $1 million.

The builder of the Duke apartment complex in the inner city Melbourne suburb of Collingwood wants a court to block the property developer from accessing a bank guarantee as their dispute over the project continues.

Santos has failed to convince a judge that it should not provide documents relied on by NOPSEMA to approve the company’s environmental plan for its Reindeer gas field in judicial review proceedings.

Bucketty’s Brewery has failed to convince the NSW Land and Environment Court to order security against a community group seeking to overturn a local council’s approval of the brewery’s plan to build a new pub and cafe.

A judge has ordered ANZ to explain itself after hearing the director of a Gold Coast property developer under investigation withdrew $112,000 from a bank account subject to freezing orders.

A developer has won an injunction to stop a builder from enforcing an adjudication decision in a dispute over a $3 million payment claim, with a judge finding it would be an abuse of process to make the developer pay.

Developer Techin MBS has filed a lawsuit against Maddocks, claiming the law firm is liable for negligence if a contract of sale for a penthouse in Toorak with multi-millionaire Scott Shearman is not found to be binding.

As it battles for ACCC approval to buy the East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia, infrastructure giant Acciona faces litigation by waste management firm Veolia over the state's other major plant.

A court has rejected a property developer's bid to challenge a payment claim decision that found in favour of collapsed builder Kenik, the contractor on a $14 million Coles and Liquorland in Taringa.