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The federal Minister for the Environment owes a duty of care to children who could suffer "catastrophic" harms from increased greenhouse gas emissions that would result from approving the expansion of Whitehaven's Vickery coal mine, a judge has ruled.
The High Court has denied the ATO's request that it weigh in on Australia's transfer pricing regime, leaving in place a Full Court victory for mining giant Glencore that left it paying $2 million of a $92 million bill relating to the sale of copper from a mine in Cobar, NSW.
Adani's controversial Carmichael coal mine in Queensland has hit another potential snag, with the Federal Court on Tuesday sending the company's moves to pump 12.5 billion litres of water a year from the Suttor River back to square one.
The High Court has ordered mining magnate Clive Palmer to pay Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan's costs for contempt proceedings brought against him during the war of words that erupted between the pair over the state's decision to close its borders at the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
Global resources giant BHP Group has asked the Full Court to rule foreign investors should be excluded from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster, arguing the class action regime only applies to those in Australia.
Grant Thornton has won approval to a bring a cross-claim against Forge Group, just three months ahead of trial in the collapsed engineering company's case against the accounting firm and ten former directors for their alleged negligence in relation to its "uneconomic" purchase of CTEC in 2012.
Fossil fuel giant Shell Australia has partially won a challenge to a tax office decision denying deductions claimed over an acquisition the increased the company's stake in Woodside Energy's Browse Basin gas exploration joint venture project.
US-based firm Jones Day has snagged one of Perth's top energy litigators from rival Quinn Emanuel to bolster its global disputes team.
A judge has hit solar panel supplier Vic Solar with a $3 million penalty for breaching the consumer law by making misleading representations in thousands of door-to-door sales of solar panels.
AGL Energy has dragged Greenpeace Australia Pacific to court for using its logo in a campaign that labelled the company "Australia's biggest climate polluter" and accused it of "significant environmental breaches".