Litigation

The High Court has declined to hear Mining Standards International's bid to overturn a stay in a $1 billion dispute over the terminated sale of a mine in Bahia.

Three Sydney residents have appealed a ruling that gutted their suit against the city of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory.

The operator of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel, which is challenging approval of a development in Macquarie Street, can't rely in its case on an engineering report showing the alleged threat to the structural integrity of a hotel driveway.

An activist group has amended its challenge to Woodside's North West Shelf gas project to allege the Environment Minister delayed publishing his reasons for approving the project in order to limit challenges, with the court hearing the dispute will likely wind up at the High Court. 

The ACT's Territory Planning Authority can appeal a decision approving a $330 million, 691-unit development at the Gold Creek Country Club. 

Developer Robert Filippini, who is suspected of fraudulently receiving investor money from defunct Keystone Asset Management, is seeking to appeal an extension of freezing orders over family trusts that hold property and several luxury cars.

Acciona has won $2.1 million from Zurich Insurance and two other insurers in a case alleging it was entitled to indemnity after severe weather events damaged work on the Bruce Highway project in Queensland. 

Construction company ADCO Group has agreed to pay $850,000 to avoid prosecution for the collapse of a structural steel framework during redevelopment works at the Kew Recreational Centre.

Traditional owners have brought a High Court appeal, arguing the Full Court erred in finding the Western Australian government’s decision to expedite an exploration application by mining company Uro Western is not subject to judicial review. 

Sydney’s four largest mobile crane companies have denied claims by the ACCC that agreements on a group chat to not supply cranes to certain customers and construction sites were anti-competitive.