Litigation

Real estate asset manager Dexus will cover the legal costs of shareholders whose stake in Australia Pacific Airports Corporation hangs in the balance, as it reveals a $55 million book value increase.

A real estate developer based in the Victorian town slated as the location for a waste-to-energy plant has lost its challenge to the proposed project.

An Acciona unit has sued Dual Australia, claiming the insurer is on the hook for $3 million in remediation for alleged design defects by a subcontractor on a Fulton Hogan quarry in Victoria. 

Design firm HUB Interiors has sued the owner of Perth's Eastpoint Plaza, alleging that its copyrighted office designs were passed on to other builders without its permission. 

The engineers that provided design services for Victoria’s West Gate tunnel project have sued software provider Midas, alleging it used the wrong formula to calculate stiffness in bridge designs. 

Sharvain Façades has won extra time to convene a second creditors' meeting to pursue a $3.28 million win against Roberts Co, but not based on the argument that SOPA says its liquidation would bar enforcement of the judgment.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has approved a plan to demolish an apartment building in the harbour-side Sydney suburb of Rushcutters Bay to make way for luxury apartments.

A dispute over a scuppered transaction between the director of collapsed Keystone and the owner of the Marriott Hotel in Venice has been settled.

A judge has questioned whether he should decide a tax dispute that will impact how much damages a former HWL Ebsworth client will get in a nine year-old negligence case over a property development.

Contesting $17.8 million in fees billed by law firm Hall & Wilcox, the liquidators of collapsed engineering firm Hastie Group have told a court there was no written costs agreement between the parties.