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The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration wants to make submissions in a High Court challenge to an arbitration ruling in a dispute with Esso over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties.

The Australian Energy Regulator has brought a High Court challenge to orders that it return a $25 million penalty paid by power company AGL for overcharging hundreds of customers receiving Centrelink payments.

The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility has dropped its challenge to the dismissal of its greenwashing case alleging Santos misled investors by falsely representing that it had a plausible path to net zero by 2040.

The Australian Energy Regulator must repay AGL a $25 million penalty secured by the watchdog in a Federal Court case, after the power company prevailed on appeal.

The High Court has agreed on an early November hearing date in a dispute over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties, despite a plea to the heavens by counsel for Esso and Woodside.

The competition regulator has given its draft approval to Fortnite maker Epic Games and Google for their global settlement of allegations of misuse of market power by the digital giant.

The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether a judge needs to consider the details of an arbitration agreement before staying related proceedings, in a suit over a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait.

Epic Games has told a judge that Apple is treating Australian competition laws with “arrogant disrespect” and urged him to order injunctions after he found the tech giant engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace.

Apple and Epic Games are back in court for a high-stakes fight over the orders a judge should make following his finding that the company engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace. 

The High Court has refused special leave to BHP in a case testing orders that it pay labour hire workers at its Queensland coal mines the same as its permanent employees.