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Alcoa has been hit with a $55 million fine for clearing land in Western Australia's Northern Jarrah Forest without seeking approval, but environmental groups say the penalty is a slap on the wrist for the US mining giant.

An oversight in a trade secrets fight between telcos SPN and Pennytel means the matter was never formally dismissed, making Pennytel's appeal premature in a set of circumstances a judge has described as a "joke". 

A judge has found that an ICC arbitration brought by Downer against Squadron Energy and a fellow contractor on the Murra Warra wind farm in Victoria was not validly commenced, upholding a hybrid arbitration clause in their agreement.

The ACCC has attacked the evidence at trial of a Coles manager who signed off on an alleged misleading discount on dog food, which was sold at a lower price just seven days earlier.

Corporates, regulators and lawyers alike will be poring over the Federal Court's reasons on Monday for dismissing a pivotal greenwashing case against gas giant Santos, but experts say the 250-page judgment is unlikely to deter further litigation.

The operator of Hunter Valley's luxury Elysia Retreat, which has filed an intellectual property suit against the newly established Elysium Hotel in Noosa, has told a court the hotel's trade mark should be removed from the register.

An April trial date in a high-stakes IP fight between real estate data company BCI and US analytics firm CoreLogic over alleged data scraping is in danger amid a fight about accounting evidence.

JLL's former human resources head in Australia has launched proceedings over her dismissal, the latest lawsuit to face the commercial real estate giant.

IG Energy’s former subsidiary has made a claim on a $3.5 million surplus from the administration of IG’s interest in the Callide Power Station in Queensland. 

A former waiter at the Melbourne consulate of the United Arab Emirates had been awarded more than $200,000 after she was discriminated against and dismissed after having a child.