Henry Cooper

China’s largest state-run conglomerate CITIC has asked the High Court to hear its appeal in mega litigation with Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia. 

An application by the funder of a class action over the compulsory acquisition of land for Sydney's WestConnex project to replace the plaintiffs has been ajourned a third time by an increasingly frustrated judge.

The High Court has slashed by 75 per cent the exemplary damages won by former youth detainees in Darwin who were unlawfully sprayed with tear gas, despite finding the conduct was "reprehensible". 

Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy has prevailed in an appeal as part of so-called mega litigation brought by CITIC over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in WA, with the court taking aim at both sides for the "intolerable" cost to the community of their endless dispute.

The Commonwealth has raised concerns over whether a case alleging systemic harassment and discrimination of women serving in the ADF should proceed as a class action, arguing the alleged acts at the centre of the case are individual in nature.

The funder that's backing a class action over land compulsorily acquired for Sydney's WestConnex road project has been ordered to pay security in satellite proceedings seeking to claw back $1.4 million in costs from the lead applicants.

A landmark class action over alleged systematic sexual violence, discrimination and harassment in the Australian Defence Force will argue that the Sex Discrimination Act applies to incidents that occurred overseas.

A judge has ordered the administrator for two class actions over PFAS contamination that settled for $153 million to pay the leftover funds to group members rather than to charities, saying it was not appropriate “to go around making donations”. 

The lead plaintiffs in a class action over the compulsory acquisition of land for the WestConnex road project will press on with a bid to discontinue the case, telling a judge they have exhausted all options for funding.

The lead plaintiffs in a class action over the compulsory acquisition of land for the WestConnex road project will press on with a bid to discontinue the case, telling a judge they have exhausted all options for funding.