Tom Porter

Alinta Energy has won an urgent injunction against former contractors working on the Wagerup power station in Western Australia, saying delays on the project have caused daily losses of $137,000 in revenue since mid-July. 

Rio Tinto unit Energy Resources has lost its privilege claim over an internal investigation into the failure of one of its wellhead systems, which is at the centre of a defects claim against equipment manufacturer Cactus Wellhead.

The owners of Perth high rise HBF House have won their bid for more documents from builder CIMIC, as they seek to prove claims that the building squeaks when the weather changes and leaks when it rains. 

Engineering firms G&S Engineering and DRA Global have lost their bid to shield legal advice by McCullough Robertson on whether they were liable to MACH Energy for indirect losses while building a coal processing plant at Mount Pleasant in South Australia.

A judge has slammed the lawyers in a $27 million trust dispute between a Chinese machinery company and law firm Clyde & Co for engaging in "inflammatory" correspondence instead of properly conferring before bringing their case to court.

A law firm with a global footprint is facing a possible breach of trust lawsuit in relation to $27 million it held as security for costs in an international arbitration.

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corporation has launched two bids in Singapore to set aside a US$94 million (AU$138 million) award relating to its dispute with Spanish energy company Duro Felguera over the Pilbara-based Roy Hill iron ore mine.