Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have avoided a shareholder class action’s bid for early discovery of documents — including those produced to ASIC and the ATO — after Ellison argued it should wait until “numerous admissions” are made. The Phi Finney McDonald class action, filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 31 March,…
Pithy one-liners and even pithier rulings are just part of NSW Supreme Court judge James Stevenson’s legacy as he steps down from the bench, bringing to an end a class of judicial staffers known as “Team Stevo”
A consortium led by the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Company has launched a $30 billion takeover bid for Santos, the energy giant said Monday.
Rail operator Aurizon has secured agreements with BHP to provide logistics for the mining giant’s South Australia copper operations over the next 15 years, estimating total revenues of $1.5 billion.
Mobil Oil has admitted it misled consumers by falsely claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel at Far North Queensland petrol stations, but cites the challenges of supplying the fuel to the region, which it says was a loss-making exercise.
A judge has stayed engineering firm Clough’s $54 million cross-claim against its former joint venture partner on the EnergyConnect transmission project, Elecnor, saying the claim must be sent to arbitration.
Griffith University has signed an enforceable undertaking to backpay $8.34 million in wages, interest and superannuation to 5,457 staff who were underpaid over a nine-year period.
After describing the $836 million project for a new Sydney Fish Market as “an architecturally designed death knell to the NSW seafood industry”, the market operator has mostly lost its application to make Infrastructure NSW hand over 100 project documents.
While parts of the business have been placed in administration, Roberts Co has been selected as development manager and early contractor for a project on Sydney’s Macquarie Street.
A judge has found that a Melbourne law firm gave negligent advice to the plaintiff in a historical sexual abuse case, which meant his “viable” claim for economic loss was never pursued.