BlueScope Steel has raised concerns over the ACCC’s subpoenas to produce documents in its civil penalty proceedings against the steel company, saying it may significantly broaden the regulator’s claims about which businesses are its competitors.
The liquidators of Forge Group have won court approval to expand their insider trading case against construction company Clough over the $187 million sale of its stake in the failed engineering and construction firm.
A former QC who is now a judge on the Victorian Supreme Court judge has been hit with costs following a ruling that he and a law firm acquired by Russell Kennedy provided negligent advice to a former client on a land purchase contract.
A judge has found he has power to order that opt out notices be sent to a limited number of Boral shareholders eligible to join two class actions that faced off last month in a class action beauty parade.
The director of building company Modscape is fighting to access Gadens’ advice concerning an allegedly false and malicious letter sent to the Victorian Building Authority which questioned his financial probity.
Building products supplier Wagners has been awarded $4.8 million from Boral after Wagners successfully challenged a ruling in a high-stakes cement supply dispute with the construction material giant.
A judge has slashed security for costs sought in a case brought by the liquidators of engineering and construction company Forge Group after the former directors targeted in the action failed to explain why they had retained multiple law firms.
Phi Finney McDonald will amend its funding agreement with Therium in a shareholder class action against Boral after a judge found that an irrevocable opt out provision placed the law firm in a “manifest position of conflict”.
A long standing stoush over staff expenses between Bechtel and the Australian Taxation Office has made its way to the Federal Court, with the engineering and construction firm challenging a decision that funds spent flying workers out to the Curtis Island LNG site were not tax deductible.
Building and construction information service provider BCI Media is suing CoreLogic, accusing the property data analytics company of unauthorised access and scraping confidential information from its copyright-protected leads platform.