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Court tosses Clive Palmer’s latest challenge to criminal cases
White Collar 2025-06-06 10:57 pm By Andy Sidler

The Queensland Supreme Court has tossed a judicial review application by mining magnate Clive Palmer seeking a declaration that criminal proceedings against him should be thrown out as abuses of process. 

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Court deals blow to live exports class action as case ticks into 11th year
Class Actions 2025-06-05 11:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

In a blow for the plaintiffs in a long-running class action over the government’s live exports ban, a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place. 

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No ‘screaming urgency’ in legal challenge to Woodside’s North Shelf extension, court told
Zelie Heger 2025-06-06 11:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The environment minister has argued there is no “screaming urgency” in hearing a traditional custodian’s legal challenge to Woodside’s bid to extend its North West Shelf gas project by 40 years. 

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Judge won’t let ACCC case against Spotless, Ventia get ‘totally unwieldy’
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-05-30 11:54 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge hearing the ACCC’s price-fixing case against Downer EDI’s Spotless and Ventia has proposed an initial hearing to determine if the companies are in competition, saying he won’t let the case become “totally unwieldy”.

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No fowl: Queensland wind farm not inconsistent with treaties on birds, judge says
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-05-22 11:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

An activist group has lost a challenge to the approval of a 69-turbine wind farm in North Queensland that it says ran afoul of international treaties to protect migratory birds, with a judge finding no grounds to review the decision.

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Ventia hits back at ACCC price-fixing case, says Defence called for ‘collective’ talks
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-05-13 11:19 pm By Sam Matthews

In the ACCC’s price-fixing case, infrastructure services company Ventia has joined with Spotless in arguing the companies were not in competition, and says it was the Department of Defence that arranged for the providers to talk.

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‘An order is an order’: Judge scolds ASIC for failing to file defence in Palmer case
ASIC 2025-05-09 11:37 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A lawyer for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been grilled by a Federal Court judge for failing to file a defence in Clive Palmer’s case against the corporate watchdog.

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Court shuts out four group members from immigration detention class action
Class Actions 2025-05-09 11:56 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has refused to allow four people to join a closed class action brought on behalf of certain people who were detained at two infamous immigration detention centres in South Australia.

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FWO mulls summary judgment bid in Setka, CFMEU case
Employment 2025-05-09 11:38 pm By Andy Sidler

Ex-CFMEU Victorian branch boss John Setka has still not filed his defence in a case alleging he tried to get the former head of the construction industry watchdog sacked, and the Fair Work Ombudsman says it may seek summary judgment.

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Spotless denies ACCC’s price-fixing claims, says Ventia not a competitor
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-05-06 11:42 pm By Sam Matthews

Downer EDI subsidiary Spotless has rejected allegations it engaged in price-fixing with Ventia on defence contracts, saying the facilities services companies were not in competition with each other.

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