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The High Court has declined a special leave application by Clive Palmer-owned mining firms challenging a judgment which ordered the billionaire to repay a $102 million loan taken out from Queensland Nickel prior to its collapse in 2016.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC has successfully struck out large portions of an amended defence by Mineralogy and its owner Clive Palmer in a dispute over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron project in Cape Preston, with a judge finding the changes would create "wholly disproportionate and unnecessary" steps just two months out from trial.
Clive Palmer will seek special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling from the Queensland Court of Appeal ordering him to return $102 million borrowed before the collapse of Queensland Nickel in 2016, and has demanded that the company's liquidators return the money he paid following the ruling.
Clive Palmer and his company Mineralogy have lost a challenge to a Western Australia Supreme Court decision staying a $263 million lawsuit against Hong Kong-based CITIC, with an appeals court finding the mining giant's decision to abandon and relitigate matters amounted to "unjustified trouble and harassment".
Two Clive Palmer companies have been slugged with indemnity costs after they were blocked from accessing documents held by two law firms and a litigation funder to pursue a potential lawsuit against Queensland Nickel, with a judge saying the case was “hopeless” from the start.
A judge has found that Clive Palmer's Mineralogy breached an agreement with Hong Kong-based CITIC over the acquisition of mining tenements to extract one billion tonnes of iron ore in the Pilbara region.
Clive Palmer and his company Mineralogy will have to press forward with their appeal of a judgment that found their lawsuit against Hong Kong-based CITIC was an abuse of process, after an appeals court dismissed the mining magnate's allegations of "sinister" conduct by CITIC.
Clive Palmer's Mineralogy has lost its bid to make Sino Iron and Korean Steel cough up over $529 million for mine site remediation in Western Australia, after the mining company argued the terms of their contracts required an immediate lump sum payment.
Two Clive Palmer companies have again been blocked from accessing documents held by two law firms and a litigation funder to pursue a potential lawsuit against Queensland Nickel, with an appeal court dismissing the bid as "unmeritorious".
Two companies owned by billionaire Clive Palmer have suffered a legal setback, with a judge setting aside prior orders enforcing two awards in a $30 billion mining dispute with the Western Australian government and criticising the companies for misleading the court.