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A director of an energy company who was kicked off the board of directors for missing too many meetings has lost a Federal Court challenge to his dismissal.
Four labour hire companies are the new targets of class actions by thousands of casual miners who claim they were entitled to accrued leave in the wake of a landmark court ruling.
Mining tycoon Clive Palmer has succeeded in having a Queensland Supreme Court judge recused from a trial over the 2016 collapse of Queensland Nickel.
A Sydney executive of a company specialising in trading rock phosphate has been charged with conspiring to bribe foreign officials in Nauru.
A native title challenge to Adani Mining's controversial $16 billion development of the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland has been revived, with a group of Indigenous Australians appealing a ruling that tossed their case.
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has said it will permit a $13 billion acquisition of Australian energy infrastructure business APA Group by a Hong Kong group of companies after accepting a court-enforceable undertaking.
An Adani Group subsidiary is facing a fine of up to $2.7 million in an enforcement action by Queensland's environment regulator over an unauthorised discharge of sediment water from its Abbot Point Coal terminal.
Maurice Blackburn has filed its promised class action against BHP Billiton over the Brazilian dam collapse, and the case puts a twist on typical funding arrangements, with the law firm looking to earn what it dubs a "litigation services fee" for financing the case itself.
The law should be altered to make unfair contract terms illegal, ACCC Chair Rod Sims says, and the regulator plans to use its clout to push for the change.
Spanish construction company Técnicas Reunidas can't block two Pinsent Masons solicitors, formerly with Norton Rose, from representing Downer EDI Engineering in an ICC arbitration between the two companies, with an appeals court saying unanswered emails provided sufficient proof a retainer had been terminated.