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 manās false imprisonment, saying the judge was not entitled to immunity but that police and correctional officers were.
A court has given the green light to BHPās bid to extend a Queensland coal mine over the objections of an environmental lobby group, saying the courtās acceptance of climate change did not mean it would reject all applications for fossil fuel projects.
The High Court has handed a win to a class action on behalf of Queensland ratepayers who were wrongly charged levies over a period of six years, rejecting the local councilās argument that the levies were put to good use.
The state of Queensland has urged the High Court to step in after a Federal Circuit and Family Court judge was held personally liable for a man’s false imprisonment.
A man awarded $300,000 after he was unlawfully imprisoned for contempt has won his legal costs from the judge who jailed him. But a court has rejected his bid to recoup the costs paid to a damages expert in his case, finding he gave her āincomplete, inaccurate and unreliableā instructions.
A judgeās appeal of a decision that found he unlawfully imprisoned a man for contempt and was liable for over $300,000 in damages may go straight to the High Court and should be heard before a similar suit by another man jailed by the judge, a court has heard.
A Queensland man has prevailed in his case alleging Federal Circuit and Family Court Judge Salvatore Vasta unlawfully imprisoned him for contempt after he failed to comply with an order for particulars, winning over $300,000 in damages.
The High Court has granted special leave to a Queensland council to challenge a ruling ordering it to repay owners of waterfront properties tens of thousands of dollars spent on an invalid canal maintenance levy.
Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal has abandoned a challenge to a ruling that ended its plan for a coalmine in central Queensland on the grounds that the project would contribute to āforeseeable and preventable life terminating harm”.
A court has rejected the plans of a Clive Palmer-owned mining company to dig a coalmine in central Queensland, finding the mine would infringe on the human rights of First Nations people and future generations of Queenslanders, and contribute to āforeseeable and preventable life terminating harm”.