Technology company Swift Networks has been taken to court for alleged bid rigging and price fixing in the tender process for IT and communications equipment supply to five Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals mining sites in WA’s Pilbara region.
Hall & Wilcox has lured a Baker & McKenzie veteran and renewables specialist to lead its Sydney finance practice.
The NSW Independent Planning Commissionâs decision to approve an extension for Whitehavenâs Narrabi coal mine was âlegally illogicalâ amid current knowledge of the âextraordinary and deadlyâ impact of climate change, a court has heard.
The law firm running the Montara oil spill class action, which has settled for $192.5 million, is looking for a new lead applicant after the first one defected over concerns group members would lose half the settlement amount to legal costs and a funding commission.
Asset Energy has won Federal Court review of former Prime Minister Scott Morrisonâs decision not to grant a two-year extension of a controversial offshore exploration license, after the government conceded that Morrisonâs decision was âinfected by apprehended bias.â
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 âforeseeable and preventable life terminating harm”.
The founding director of Perth-based exploration company Legacy Iron Ore Limited has been hit with a suspended sentence of three years imprisonment for stealing over $720,000 from the company.
Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel and three other Palmer-related entities have been ordered to pay $44.5 million (US$30.8 million) to litigation funder Vannin Capital for defaulting on a loan for a private jet.
Liquidators for collapsed forestry giant Gunns Plantations have lost a High Court appeal over $1.2 million in payments to a former supplier that confirmed the so-called peak indebtedness rule does not apply in Australian insolvency law.
A class action against KPMG over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania has settled its claims against former Tasmanian Premier Robin Gray.