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A Tiwi Island traditional owner has brought fresh legal action against Santos, seeking to block the energy giant from building its Barossa gas export pipeline without a proper assessment of the risks to cultural heritage.
A class action over a December 2019 fire that was allegedly ignited by welding work on a rural property in NSW and spread out of control has settled for $4.5 million.
In a shareholder class action targeting Boral, the construction materials giant has lost a bid to limit the class to registered group members until judgment, with a judge saying there was no reason to keep the class closed after mediation.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit over the $55 million sale of Queensland shopping centre brought by an arm of Elanor Investors Group, clearing the vendor and its agent of allegedly misleading or deceptive conduct.
Qantas has hit back at the ACCC’s case alleging it sold thousands of tickets on cancelled flights for commercial gain, saying airlines cannot guarantee flights will run as planned.
Carnival has pointed the finger at passengers in response to a class action over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship, a defence that recently flopped in a separate class action over a COVID-19 outbreak aboard Ruby Princess.
An IP Australia has knocked back PayPal’s bid to patent an AI-powered model for making purchase or donation recommendations to online shoppers at checkout, rejecting simplistic considerations of AI-related inventions.
Two units of electricity giant AGL Energy will pay penalties totalling $6 million for being unable to make good on their promise to be on standby to release electricity to help prevent blackouts.
Construing an “ambiguous” order from the Full Federal Court, a judge has ordered a fresh trial in a trade secrets case that touched on the permissible scope of law firms’ involvement in drafting expert reports.
Dentons has snagged a former principal at intellectual property firm Spruson & Ferguson to join its patents team in Sydney.