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The environment minister has argued there is no “screaming urgency” in hearing a traditional custodian’s legal challenge to Woodside’s bid to extend its North West Shelf gas project by 40 years.
Female-only app Giggle for Girls has appealed a ruling that found it discriminated against a trans woman by barring her from the app.
In a test of Julia Gillard-era amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act guarding against discrimination on the basis of gender identity, the Federal Court has ruled that a trans-exclusionary social media app, Giggle for Girls, was unlawfully discriminatory.
Santos is seeking to wrangle further documents from the Environmental Defenders Office to support its bid for costs orders against the law firm, telling a court there must have been "glaring deficiencies" in the standard of its services in running its challenge to construction of a pipeline for the energy company's $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.
Activist organisations are seeking to challenge orders to hand up communications with the Environmental Defenders Office in its failed case against Santos over the $5.6 billion Barossa gas project, arguing there was no legitimate forensic purpose for the material sought.
A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia's system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
The Federal Court has thrown out a lawsuit accusing former NSW politician Craig Kelly of breaching electoral laws with election posters that displayed the details of his authorisation in 8 point font.
The lead applicant in an unsuccessful class action over the Carwoola bushfire has avoided indemnity costs sought by insurer CGU and has won a 40 per cent reduction in the amount of legal costs it will have to cover for the defendant.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer and two of his mining firms have lost a High Court challenge seeking to overturn a Western Australian law which prevented him from suing the state government for $30 billion over mining tenements in the Pilbara.
NSW public sector employees have lost their bid for a 2.5 per cent salary increase, with an appeals court upholding a decision which found the economy would be better served by public spending on infrastructure investment than public service salaries.