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Convenience store chain On the Run is mulling proceedings against United Petroleum, which allegedly paid $120,000 to a public relations firm to run a “misleading” ad campaign accusing it of wage theft.
Fortescue has rejected Element Zero’s “implausible” claims that the start-up's founder was instructed by the mining giant's IP manager to access and delete certain documents after his resignation, as it defends allegations that search orders it won over the alleged misappropriation of its confidential information were based on weak evidence.
The Australian Conservation Foundation has reached an agreement with Woodside Energy to drop proceedings over the company's Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, which alleged the $16.5 billion joint venture could not go ahead until its climate impacts were assessed.
The full Fair Work Commission has rejected a union's challenge to a decision affirming Energy Australia’s practice not to make superannuation contributions on earnings for time off in lieu of overtime for shift workers.
Start-up Element Zero has attacked search orders won by Fortescue over the alleged misappropriation of the mining company's confidential information by three former employees, calling the orders an “industrial scale forensic debacle” won on weak evidence and the failure to disclose material information.
Trial in a five-year-old class action against Whitehaven Coal will proceed without further delay despite the plaintiff's late bid to tender an expert report, with a judge finding no extraordinary reason to push off the hearing date any longer.
Drilling company Boart Longyear has reached a $10 million settlement with global mining technology company Imdex that resolves a long-running patent dispute.
The PR firm for a franchisee class action against United Petroleum has been sued for allegedly distributing an image to group members that depicted the petrol giant as "evil" and was allegedly intended to harm its position in the class action.
The High Court has rejected an appeal from a joint venture that provided work on Chevron's Gorgon liquified natural gas project that argued the Western Australia appeals court lacked power to uphold a ruling that set aside an arbitration ruling in a $130 million dispute over the project.
A judge has ruled that Acciona must deliver $38.6 million in bank guarantees to the entity in charge of a $511 million waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia, despite allegations of insolvency levelled by the Spanish infrastructure giant.