The Supreme Court of Western Australia has stayed counterclaims by Bianca Rinehart and John Hancock and sent a long-running Rinehart family dispute over control of valuable mining assets such as the Hope Downs iron ore mine into arbitration.
A judge overseeing former Liberal politician Dennis Jensen’s defamation case against News Corp has denied him access to the identity of anonymous sources who leaked information to the publisher, including erotic passages from his unpublished novel, which led to him being dumped from the party.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC and two of its subsidiaries have taken mining magnate Clive Palmer and his firm Mineralogy to court over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron Ore Project in Western Australia.
The Western Australian government has lost its bid to appeal a Federal Court judge’s rejection of its application to throw out a native title case alleging Onslow Salt made a $75 million with Chevron that amounted to an unlawful means conspiracy.
A director of a corporate advisory firm has been ordered to name names in his defence of a lawsuit brought by Mineral Resources over tweets suggesting the lithium mining company’s ore has a bad reputation in China.
The High Court has granted an appeal to a Norton Rose Fulbright-represented man who claimed more than 900g of marijuana found at his house was for personal use, repealing his conviction for drug possession after new evidence emerged that may have changed the course of his trial in 2013.
A unit of Fortescue Metals Group has won its bid for emails between Squire Patton Boggs and a unit of electricity provider TransAlta Energy relating to a disputed power purchase agreement, saying privilege was waived when the emails were forwarded to a third party.
A unit of Rio Tinto has won an appeal allowing it to avoid an $86 million payment owed to failed mining services company Forge Group Power.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission failed to establish any grounds for permanently banning an ANZ financial adviser from the industry, a tribunal said in setting aside the decision Tuesday.
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has said it will permit a $13 billion acquisition of Australian energy infrastructure business APA Group by a Hong Kong group of companies after accepting a court-enforceable undertaking.