Industries

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is on the hook for royalties payable to the heirs of iron ore pioneers Don Rhodes and Peter Wright, a judge has held in a long-running battle over lucrative tenements in the Pilbara region.

Challenging an adjudication decision for Watpac in a dispute over a $450 million residential complex in Macquarie Park, developer Romeciti says the adjudicator had no jurisdiction to permit the builder to access $9.19 million in bank guarantees.

Victoria's Building and Plumbing Commission has suspended a prominent building surveyor over a series of alleged failures in relation to a Carnegie renovation.

Mastercard has hit back at the ACCC’s claims that it sought to prevent competition with EFTPOS through strategic agreements with large retailers, saying the deals were struck for “benign and pro-competitive” reasons. 

Roblox has unveiled a suite of measures to boost protections for kids, after the eSafety Commissioner said it would test commitments made by the popular online gaming company amid concerns about child exploitation on the platform.

Bentleys Wealth is suing a former director and his companies alleging he poached clients after leaving the firm, in breach of his employment agreement and various duties. 

Mastercard made ‘strategic’ agreements with large retailers like Coles and David Jones to keep them from routing through EFTPOS, offering discounted exchange rates that left smaller businesses footing the bill, the ACCC told the court on the first day of trial.

The Full Court has found that a pleading error in an underpayments class action against The Reject Shop which left it empty of group members can be fixed but that the amended pleading cannot be backdated.

Pitcher Partners has taken a former client to court, alleging it failed to pay a $1.3 million 'abort fee' after it withdrew from a proposal to sell the business. 

MinterEllison's market-leading construction team is readying for a jump in claims stemming from reforms to Victoria's Security of Payment Act and navigating 'crisis contracting' for clients amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East -- and with a new partner soon to join its ranks, the firm is ready for the challenges.