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.
The High Court has ruled that NSW builders cannot point fingers at their subcontractors as concurrent wrongdoers for negligent construction defects under the Design and Building Practitioners Act.
An appeals court has found Transport for NSW was not empowered to compulsorily acquire land for the ‘public purpose’ of the Western Sydney Airport.
The High Court has declined a request by Shinetec for it to weigh in a dispute over an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford, NSW.
Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona has lost its bid to transfer a dispute over a $511 million waste-to-energy facility in East Rockingham, with a judge finding no overlap with another matter in the Federal Court.