WA premier Mark McGowan has won the legal costs of running his defamation cross-claim against businessman Clive Palmer after a judge learned McGowan made a walk-away settlement offer in December last year.
A shareholder class action against Ernst & Young over its alleged inflation of assets owned by sandalwood producer Quintis has argued the accounting firm should be allowed only one expert witness, who should collaborate with a competing expert chosen by the investors.
A Globaltech patent for mining survey tools is facing another test, with rival technology company Reflex Technologies lodging an appeal after its invalidity challenge flopped.
Australian Mines has agreed to pay a $450,000 penalty to settle proceedings brought by ASIC after its managing director was allegedly caught lying at an investment conference about the value of an offtake agreement and funding for a project at its cobalt and nickel mine in Queensland.
The Full Federal Court has dismissed former Blue Star Helium CEO James Cruickshank’s challenge to a $40,000 penalty and four-year ban for failing to disclose to shareholders the identity of the buyer behind a botched sale of Texas oil assets.
Slater & Gordon has defeated Shine Lawyers in a contest to run a shareholder class action against Beach Energy, with a judge finding Shine’s tiered contingency fee arrangement was “mere window dressing”.
Piper Alderman has recruited a former Mills Oakley partner to join its commercial litigation practice in Perth.
A government-approved plan to build a waste facility in western Tasmania has been parked, after environmental campaigners won a judgment declaring the federal government’s approval of the proposed tailings storage facility was invalid.
Tiwi Islanders will file a new application to prevent drilling continuing on Santos’ $4.7 billion Barossa gas project after losing a challenge to stop the energy giant from beginning work on the first sea well.
Clive Palmer’s mining company Mineralogy has lost a bid to stay an expert determination process in a royalties dispute with Adani, with a judge ruling that the court should not “lightly disregard” decisions to resolve disputes by expert determination rather than court-based litigation.