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A court has found no legal error in a regulator’s decision to approve Woodside’s environmental plan for its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, finding the company was not required to specify what would be an acceptable level of emissions.
The judge overseeing three court proceedings against Optus over a 2022 data breach has questioned why it took the privacy regulator three years to file its case.
A judge has dismissed a bid by a group of labour hire companies to disqualify former Labor MP now Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases for apprehended bias.
The High Court has halved a $40,000 fine received by former Liberal MP Andrew Laming over three Facebook posts that breached electoral rules, finding the penalty should reflect the number of publications rather than the number of views.
A former EY partner accused of promoting a tax loss scheme has hit back at the ATO’s case on the first day of trial, saying he gave objective advice and the case is an overreach.
Construction PRO
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".
The applicant in a long-running class action over the government's live exports ban has lodged an appeal after 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.
An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.
A former member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has failed to convince a judge her salary should still have been paid after she accepted a job as a deputy judge in the UK.