A judge has ordered a foreign investor in rare earths miner Northern Minerals to pay pecuniary penalties after it failed to comply divestment orders, in the first case brought over alleged breaches of foreign investment laws.
Allens has lured a senior corporate partner from rival firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has thrown out an objection to a 100mw solar farm slated to be built in Wallaroo on the NSW and ACT border, finding solar farms are not inconsistent with rural character.
A former BHP Coal employee has lost his unfair dismissal case, with the Fair Work Commission finding his conduct in throwing a mug and threatening a co-worker was a valid reason for dismissal.
An appeals court has revived a legal challenge by traditional custodians against Adani’s Carmichael open cut coal mine in Queensland.
The liquidators of the offshore oil company that ran the LamCor oil field off the coast of Darwin have won more time to seek funding to pursue claims against the Commonwealth.
Victoria will kick off the country’s first offshore wind auction in August, after it was delayed last year.
The federal government has awarded feasibility licences to three offshore renewable energy projects in Western Australia.
The co-head of Allens’ equity capital markets team will make the jump to Clayton Utz, just months after Clayton Utz poached a leading private equity lawyer from its rival.
BHP and Rio Tinto have told a court that the claims of thousands of women who allegedly experienced workplace sexual harassment and discrimination should not be brought as class actions.