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Global mine technology company Minetek is considering a lawsuit against a former employee who may have unlawfully used confidential company information, a court has heard.
Japanese oil company Inpex has sued Dutch paint manufacturer AkzoNobel for allegedly making misleading statements about an epoxy coating it supplied for use in the Ichthys Liquefied Natural Gas project in Bladin Point, Darwin.
The Federal Minister for the Environment has announced plans to appeal a Federal Court judgment that found the government has a duty of care to protect Australian children from the impacts of climate change.
The federal Minister for the Environment has lost a bid to declass a class action brought over climate change risks from an expansion of the Whitehaven coal mine, with a judge making a declaration that the government owes a duty to all Australian children to protect them from global warming.
Four executives of the failed Arrium have named auditor KPMG as a "concurrent wrongdoer" in defending a shareholder class action over a $754 million capital raising two years prior to the mining and steel giant's $2 billion collapse.
A settlement reached in a lawsuit by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors accused of insolvent trading has been approved by a judge, who noted that while the settlement amount was "substantial", the deal involved a "substantial compromise".
Global resources giant BHP Group is seeking special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling that rejected its bid to exclude foreign investors from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster.
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has thrown out a lawsuit against billionaire mining heiress Angela Bennett and her brother Michal Wright over the estate of their father, mining magnate Peter Wright, despite finding the siblings breached their fiduciary duty and engaged in deceit and fraud.
Former Quantum Resources CEO and director Avrohom Kimelman faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to charges of insider trading and conspiring to manipulate the market in shares of the company, now known as Nova Minerals.
The widow of mining executive Ken Talbot has lost a bid to act for two of her daughters in a negligence case over the handling of her late husband's estate against law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal, with a judge finding claims by the mother and daughters were "directly competing and contrary".