Dam operator Seqwater is challenging a decision that put it on the hook for 50 per cent of any damages payouts to thousands of members of a long-running class action over the 2011 floods that destroyed 2,000 Queensland homes.
A judge overseeing mining magnate Clive Palmer’s challenge to border closures by Western Australia and Queensland has delayed a hearing in the case for two weeks as WA’s expert responds to an urgent call for help from Victoria, which has seen a record surge in coronavirus cases.
The liquidators of Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel are appealing a win for the billionaire in their case over the collapse of the refinery in 2016, which centred on $102 million in loans allegedly paid by Queensland Nickel to Palmer’s Mineralogy.
A group of Queensland youths and rural landowners are suing Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal for alleged human rights breaches over concerns the company’s Galilee Coal project may fuel dangerous climate change that puts their futures at risk.
Shine Lawyers and barrister David Turner have once again dodged a negligence lawsuit over advice given about a $630,000 contractual dispute, with an appeals court upholding an earlier decision dismissing a bid to join the two parties.
A group of Queensland taxi drivers has lost the bulk of a lawsuit seeking compensation from the state government for losses allegedly caused by ride sharing services like Uber, with a court dismissing the drivers’ claims as “fanciful”.
A hearing to determine damages in the Queensland floods class action will proceed next week despite an appeal brought by the two dam operators that were found liable for the 2011 floods in the state that destroyed 2,000 homes.
Funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort has been temporarily blocked while a company owned by Clive Palmer appeals a judgment in a separate lawsuit lodged by the billionaire to thwart the class action.
The Fair Work Commission has found that BHP’s decision to fire a mine worker and self-professed ‘larrikin’ for a single crude joke was unjustified, but the employee’s attempts to throw other staff “under the bus” during an internal investigation were valid reasons for the dismissal.
Farmers in a class action against Advanta Seeds over allegedly contaminated sorghum have defeated a bid by the company to hand over a list of all group members who have signed funding agreements to join the case.