Judgment

A judge has said that she is “scandalised” by Clarke Energy’s $10 million legal bill in a dispute with Alinta Energy over the construction of a gas-fired power station.

A long-running class action by Royal Australian Navy technicians alleging the Department of Defence broke a promise to train them in engineering has lost its challenge to referees' methods for assessing group members' loss.

Accor Hotels has won its bid to strike out a case by the strata company for a building in Dunsborough, Western Australia that houses its Pullman Bunker Bay resort, with a registrar saying it failed to plead how it allegedly mistakenly paid $2.2 million in invoices over five years.

Free TV, the peak body for commercial TV broadcasters including Seven and Nine, has lost its bid for a $2.5 million licence fee to use copyright sound recordings owned by collecting society Phonographic Performance Company of Australia.

The eSafety Commissioner has won suppression order over witness names in its lawsuit against messaging platform Telegram over alleged pro-terror content, after expressing concerns they could be exposed to doxing.

The High Court has found the Victorian Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a dispute between the planning minister Sonya Kilkenny and supermarket chain IGA about a proposed amendment to a council's by-laws, despite the absence of an approval decision.

Law firm DWF Australia will face a negligence claim over an alleged failure to join other parties to a claim over a damaged pipeline, after failing to secure a summary dismissal of the matter.

The High Court has ruled that abattoir Game Meats Company is not entitled to a constructive trust in the copyright over video footage obtained by animal activists while trespassing in a Victorian slaughterhouse.

An IP Australia delegate has rejected ProQR Therapeutics' patent for an RNA-editing technology, but gave the Dutch biotech two months to amend its application.

Victorian planning minister Sonya Kilkenny will learn Wednesday whether she has prevailed in a High Court fight with IGA over the power of the state Supreme Court to hear planning disputes.