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The Federal Government is proposing changes to right of entry rules that would require permits to be issued in photo ID format, in a bid to curb abuse by "militant" union officials.
Acciona Infrastructure and Transport for NSW are currently in settlement talks over a $1.2 billion dispute around the NSW government's ongoing light rail project in Sydney.
Maurice Blackburn has dropped its investigation of a possible class action on behalf of owners of units in Sydney's faulty Opal Tower, but Corrs Chambers Westgarth is still pursuing a potential case.
Deloitte is challenging a judge's ruling that certain partners not be excused from an order to produce files of the accounting giant's audit work for Hastie Group to shareholders in a class action over the construction company's collapse, its latest move after a failed attempt to persuade the judge that a rogue partner had taken the only copies of the files and refused to give them back.
An Australian partner of international law firm Jones Day has moved to the firm's Singapore office to bolster its growing team of international arbitration specialists.
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union has admitted to contravening the Fair Work Act by taking industrial action against a subsidiary of building materials giant Boral in an attempt to coerce the company into approving a new enterprise agreement.
Home builder Carlisle Homes has agreed to settle its lawsuit against home builder Resimax after its rival agreed to stop selling residential home plans that allegedly infringe Carlisle's copyright-protected home designs.
The cracks that led to the evacuation of Sydney's Opal Tower and threats of litigation have been blamed on design and construction issues, but the building is structurally sound and not in danger of collapse, according to an interim report commissioned by the NSW Government.
Two law firms have launched formal investigations into possible class actions over Sydney's defective Opal Tower, inviting owners of units in the "crumbling" building to register their interest in joining legal proceedings.
In a situation a judge has called "extraordinary and troubling", Deloitte's files on failed construction company Hastie -- sought as evidence by shareholders in a class action -- have vanished from the accounting giant's locked 'litigation room' and are now in the control of a single partner who refuses to return them.