Gas giants Esso and Woodside have won their bid to stay a court case related to a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait, with a judge finding the court should apply a ‘light touch’ when interpreting arbitration agreements.
A High Court majority has found self-represented law firms can recover costs for their solicitors’ work, but in dissent two judges said the ruling effectively restored an exception scrapped five years ago.
The High Court has dismissed an appeal of a finding that a successor trustee owes no fiduciary duty to a former trustee to preserve an entitlement to indemnification.
The government of India has overturned a finding that it couldn’t dodge a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies, with an appeals court finding it did not waive foreign state immunity in the case.
The High Court has ruled that NSW builders cannot point fingers at their subcontractors as concurrent wrongdoers for negligent construction defects under the Design and Building Practitioners Act.
An appeals court has found Transport for NSW was not empowered to compulsorily acquire land for the ‘public purpose’ of the Western Sydney Airport.
The Catholic church can’t be on the hook for sexual abuse by priests because the principle of vicarious liability is limited to the employment relationship, the High Court has found.
The High Court has upheld appeals in class actions against Ford and Toyota over the calculation of damages for reduction in value of defective vehicles.
X Corp is going to the Full Federal Court with its challenge to an infringement notice by eSafety over the social media platform’s handling of child exploitation material.
Isuzu is not giving up its bid to slam the brakes on a suit by car alarm company Directed Electronics over alleged trade secrets theft.