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Fossil fuel giant Shell Australia has partially won a challenge to a tax office decision denying deductions claimed over an acquisition the increased the company's stake in Woodside Energy's Browse Basin gas exploration joint venture project.
US-based firm Jones Day has snagged one of Perth's top energy litigators from rival Quinn Emanuel to bolster its global disputes team.
A judge has hit solar panel supplier Vic Solar with a $3 million penalty for breaching the consumer law by making misleading representations in thousands of door-to-door sales of solar panels.
AGL Energy has dragged Greenpeace Australia Pacific to court for using its logo in a campaign that labelled the company "Australia's biggest climate polluter" and accused it of "significant environmental breaches".
The Australian arm of Fuchs Lubricants has succeeded in invalidating two patents owned by Quakers Chemicals, with the Full Federal Court finding the inventions were not novel because Quakers had tested them in public prior to applying for registration with IP Australia.
A mid-trial settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the liquidators of collapsed steel giant Arrium against 10 former company directors and officers for allegedly engaging in insolvent trading.
A unit of coal mining company Futura Resources has failed to convince the Full Federal Court to allow it to register a 2012 coking coal mine investigation conducted in Central Queensland for a research and development tax offset.
A judge has partially struck out mining magnate Clive Palmer’s defence to WA Premier Mark McGowan’s defamation claim over statements which allegedly accused the premier of corruption, abusing his position and lying about the decision to close the state’s borders at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
Petrol station operator Ampol has denied accusations by US oil giant Chevron that it is misusing Caltex branding on 175 of its service stations, on the first day of a trial that could see the presiding judge take a road trip to view the alleged offending signage firsthand.
Two Clive Palmer companies have been slugged with indemnity costs after they were blocked from accessing documents held by two law firms and a litigation funder to pursue a potential lawsuit against Queensland Nickel, with a judge saying the case was “hopeless” from the start.