Timothy Maxwell

The Australian Tax Office wants to hive off a contract dispute between Japanese conglomerate Mitsui and its Kipper gas field partners, ExxonMobil unit Esso and Woodside, in a fight over a $298 million tax bill.

The Tax Office wants to hive off a contract dispute between Japanese conglomerate Mitsui and its Kipper gas field partners Esso and Woodside in a fight over a $298 million tax bill.

Pizza chain Domino's has lodged an appeal and secured a stay of orders following a ruling in a class action that it misled franchisees on worker pay entitlements.

China's state-run CITIC has lost an appeal bid to the High Court in its long-running battle with Clive Palmer over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia.

The co-owner of Pacific Werribee shopping centre's has defended an engineering expert's decision to stray from an agreed model in drafting a report for trial in a $356 million defects case, even as the court warns it may not get a "second bite of the cherry".

A judge has ordered Pacific Shopping Centres unit Wadren to hand over photos of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre car park from 2017 and 2018 to co-owner QIC Werribee in a dispute over alleged structural defects. 

Pizza chain Domino's has confirmed that it will appeal a judge's finding that it misled franchisees on the pay its workers were entitled to, leaving them shortchanged.

A judge has rejected Domino's bid for a 30 per cent reduction in the costs it owes after losing an underpayments class action, saying the pizza chain will likely be on the hook for around $10 million in costs.

After waiting three-and-a-half years for judgment and winning on “close to everything”, a class action against Domino’s over staff wages is "very likely" to face an appeal, with retiring Justice Bernard Murphy vowing to make final orders and not hand the "mess" over to another judge.

Domino's Pizza has been found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in representations about staff wages to its Australian franchisees, in a class action judgment three and a half years in the making.