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Santos must hand over info in activist’s challenge to Reindeer gas field plan
Environment 2025-09-23 11:00 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Santos has failed to convince a judge that it should not provide documents relied on by NOPSEMA to approve the company’s environmental plan for its Reindeer gas field in judicial review proceedings.

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Court finds Argentina validly served in suit to enforce $24.3B judgment
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-09-22 10:47 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Two minority shareholders in Argentina’s state-controlled oil company have won a dispute over service in their case seeking to enforce a $24.3 billion judgment awarded in a US court. 

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Class action against Murray Darling Authority can tweak case mid-trial
Trials 2025-09-19 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

A class action alleging negligent management by the Murray Darling Basin Authority can amend their case four weeks into trial, with a judge finding the late application was not the result of a “deliberate forensic decision”.

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Acciona lobs cross-claims in Hunter Valley bus crash class action
Class Actions 2025-09-19 11:50 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Acciona is targeting engineers SMEC and Jacobs Group in cross-claims after being joined to a class action over a deadly bus accident in NSW’s Hunter Valley, as two more parties in the proceeding flag further cross-claims.

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Cosmetic surgery class action doctors can’t cut accessorial liability claims
Class Actions 2025-09-19 11:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Four doctors named in a class action over cosmetic surgeries performed at Daniel Lanzer’s clinic in Sydney can’t dodge claims they are liable as accessories for alleged misleading social media ads. 

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Maurice Blackburn mulls expanding group in Hyundai, Kia class actions
Class Actions 2025-09-19 11:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Maurice Blackburn has proposed expanding the group definition in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over allegedly defective anti-lock braking systems after winning a carriage fight against a proceeding that included additional recalls in its group membership. 

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Telegram wins more time to prep appeal of $1M eSafety fine
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-09-19 11:44 pm By Sam Matthews

Encrypted messaging app Telegram has won its bid to delay the hearing of its challenge to a $1 million fine from the eSafety Commissioner, after complaining about a “document dump” from the regulator. 

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ANZ conduct ‘remarkable’, judge says after ALAMMC director allegedly withdraws frozen funds
Construction 2025-09-22 11:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has ordered ANZ to explain itself after hearing the director of a Gold Coast property developer under investigation withdrew $112,000 from a bank account subject to freezing orders.

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Fairfield developer wins spat over $3M payment claim
Construction 2025-09-22 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A developer has won an injunction to stop a builder from enforcing an adjudication decision in a dispute over a $3 million payment claim, with a judge finding it would be an abuse of process to make the developer pay.

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Acciona wants to move Veolia’s suit over Kwinana waste-to-energy plant
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-09-19 11:45 pm By Christine Caulfield

As it battles for ACCC approval to buy the East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia, infrastructure giant Acciona faces litigation by waste management firm Veolia over the state’s other major plant.

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