A judge has refused to stay a fight between the tax office and software company Oracle over royalties, finding determination of the dispute will guide 15 other cases.
Years of hard fought litigation by axed Qantas ground crew and generic drug maker Sandoz ended in victory this week, thanks to legal eagles from Maurice Blackburn and Ashurst and their counsel. The week opened with a bang with a decision from Federal Court Justice Michael Lee in three landmark test cases by the Transport…
Two firms representing some Rio Tinto shareholders have lost their bid to intervene in Energy Resources’ fight to renew its lease for the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory.
A collectable car dealer who operated his Gosford business using a âmuseum conceptâ has won a High Court victory in a dispute with the ATO over whether he should be on the hook for luxury car tax.
Medical device supplier Medtronic has been socked with a $22 million penalty after it supplied non-compliant bone graft kits to hospitals, in what is the largest penalty under the Therapeutics Good Act.
A environmental group has lost its challenge to the extension of the Mount Pleasant open cut coal mine in NSW operated by MACH Energy, with a judge finding the planning commission considered greenhouse emissions and did not merely pay âlip serviceâ to the issue.
A judge has rejected Lendleaseâs argument that Queensland building legislation does not apply to cross-border works carried out at Gold Coast Airport, saying the builderâs construction of the law would require a âbolt-by-boltâ analysis of construction work.
Subcontractor EnerMech has won an appeal in its fight against Acciona over a $10 million progress payment for work on the Westconnex M4-M5 link, with an appeals court finding the question of whether EnerMech’s claim was a payment claim for construction work was a matter for an adjudicator, not the court.
The attorney-general of South Australia wants to intervene in a High Court appeal of a ruling that put Judge Salvatore Vasta on the hook for a manâs false imprisonment, saying the judge was not entitled to immunity but that police and correctional officers were.
The ATO has lost its bid for a court-appointed joint expert after it failed to find a witness with legal expertise in structuring hotel sales who was not âcommercially conflictedâ, with a judge ruling that Hilton should not be prevented from relying on an expert report it already obtained.