Gold exploration company Zuleika Gold has to produce a draft technical report to Vango Mining as it seeks “significant damages’ over a repudiated joint venture agreement, with a judge finding an affidavit from its solicitor put the report squarely in issue.
The High Court will hear an appeal by Sunshine Loans, which centres on a judge’s recusal in the corporate regulator’s case over unauthorised fees.
The privacy regulator has brought a case against Optus over a 2022 data breach that affected up to 10 million people, as the telco faces a class action and related proceedings by the media regulator.
A judge has handed iSignthis and its director $11 million in penalties for failing to give adequate disclosures and giving misleading information to the ASX, saying reliance on legal advice was no reason to reduce the fine.
Energy giant Santos has won a dispute over its Gladstone LNG project, described by a court as “litigation on a monumental scale”, securing a $692 million judgment against engineering firm Fluor with the help of four silks.
IGA can pursue its Victoria Supreme Court challenge to a decision allowing up to four supermarkets to operate in Shepparton, with an appeal bench finding the court can review planning decisions for jurisdictional error.
Developer Goldfields Group has purchased the Quality Resort in Western Australia’s Sorrento Beach in a $31 million off-market sale.
A former EY partner accused by the ATO of promoting a tax avoidance scheme over property developments has told a trial judge the commissioner has “overreached”.
Builder Xela has failed in its bid to wind up the owner of a development to recoup a $776,000 debt owing under the Security of Payment Act, with a court finding that despite an unwillingness to pay, the owner is solvent.
Mayne Pharma and US drug maker Cosette have agreed to postpone the start of trial in a case over the termination of a $672 million merger to allow for late amendments.