The former CEO of the lead contractor on the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project now facing corruption charges was the target of Australian Federal Police search warrants that were “too broad” to be sufficient, the Federal Court was told on Friday.
Mining company Iluka Resources has been hit with a shareholder class action alleging it breached its continuous disclosure obligations regarding its zircon sales.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources Pty Ltd is appealing a decision by IP Australia to refuse a patent application for a method of separating mined material that was deemed a “purely logistical process”.
Calling on the competition chief to “have another look” at AGL’s decision to shutter its Liddell plant, Liberal MP Craig Kelly says the power company’s conduct makes for a clear case under the new misuse of market power provision of Australia’s competition law.
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a challenge by SNF to a BASF application for a mining patent.
A BHP subsidiary has won a reprieve pending appeal of a Fair Work Commission decision that found it acted unreasonably when it failed to consider alternative work for an incapacitated miner.
CSIRO has won a challenge to an application for a mining patent filed by mining giant Rio Tinto, with an IP Australia delegate finding no patentable subject matter could be claimed.
The High Court of Australia has rejected an appeal by the Port of Newcastle to overturn a decision that declared the shipping channel at the port and gave the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulatory power to settle access disputes.
Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance will represent Rio Tinto as it faces legal action in Australia over allegedly misleading investors about the coal reserves of a Mozambique mining company it acquired for $4 billion in 2011.
The Fair Work Commission has refused a bid by an employer group to halt the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and two other unions while a challenge is heard.