The Australian Conservation Foundation has brought proceedings against oil and gas producer Woodside Energy, arguing its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia cannot go ahead until its climate impacts are assessed.
The High Court has declined to review an appeals court decision that overturned a $106 million judgment against a unit of Indian conglomerate Adani Group over access charges for its Abbot Point coal terminal.
WA manufacturer Rock Tool Refurbishment Solutions has lost its bid to throw out patent infringement claims by global mining equipment company CME, with a judge saying he was not satisfied the allegations had no reasonable prospects of success.
Settlement talks in a class action on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have failed after Astora Health took a long-standing $27 million settlement offer off the table.
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group hit hundreds of thousands of customers with cash advance fees after providing them with incorrect account balances, and the Big Four bank has still not rectified the problem, ASIC alleges in new civil penalty proceedings.
Fighting a class action that claims the age pension discriminates against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy, the Commonwealth says the rate of welfare dependency among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders could impact the case.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has fired off a lawsuit against four drug companies for allegedly infringing one of its patents for biologic Enbrel by selling a biosimilar of the blockbuster arthritis drug in Australia.
Apple is “unlikely” to avoid production of the source code for its Touch ID and Face ID technology to an Australian non-practicing entity that has sued the Silicon Valley company for patent infringement, a judge has said.
Settlement talks in three class actions on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have progressed “substantially”, a court has heard.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken Honda Australia to court, alleging the car maker made false or misleading representations to customers about two former authorised dealerships.