Adero Law is seeking to intervene in a Federal Court case against WorkPac over the rights of casual workers, arguing a class action it plans to bring against the labour hire firm should be heard first.
The Morrison Government plans to block the $13 billion acquisition of Australian energy infrastructure business APA Group by a Hong Kong group of companies led by CK Group, saying the deal was not in the national interest.
The Federal Court will hear a dispute between Fueltrac and the State of Queensland over the copyright for the fuel data reporting company’s monthly pump price report.
Billionaire Clive Palmer has succeeded in knocking a second judge off a case brought against him by the liquidators of failed Queensland Nickel, after arguing that a previous ruling disqualified him.
A subsidiary of US-based PetroHunter Energy has defeated calls to toss its case over $70 million in allegedly unpaid contributions and contractual breaches stemming from a joint mining venture in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.
UGL knew by April 2014 that there were delays with the Ichthys LNG project, but failed to make required disclosures to shareholders, according to an amended pleading in a shareholder class action against the engineering company.
A month after successfully arguing for the recusal of a state Supreme Court justice from an upcoming trial over the collapse of Queensland Nickel, Clive Palmer is calling for the replacement judge to step down, alleging he too is biased against him.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC and two of its subsidiaries have taken mining magnate Clive Palmer and his firm Mineralogy to court over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron Ore Project in Western Australia.
The high-stakes contest to run a shareholder class action against BHP has begun, with lawyers for three competing cases all arguing in Federal Court Monday that there can be only one winner.
The managing director of litigation funder Vannin Capital lost a battle to dismiss a cross claim brought against him by rival LCM in a case alleging LCM has misapplied funds in its trust.