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The Australian Tax Office wants to hive off a contract dispute between Japanese conglomerate Mitsui and its Kipper gas field partners, ExxonMobil unit Esso and Woodside, in a fight over a $298 million tax bill.

The Tax Office wants to hive off a contract dispute between Japanese conglomerate Mitsui and its Kipper gas field partners Esso and Woodside in a fight over a $298 million tax bill.

A judge has refused Wollongong Coal’s bid for indemnity costs after it successfully defended a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, with a judge finding that refusing a $400,000 settlement offer in the $350 million case was not unreasonable. 

Keeping experts in the loop and testing their evidence early is critical to avoiding common pitfalls with their evidence, according to solicitors.

The owners corporation at a mixed use development on the lower north shore of Sydney has lost an appeal seeking work orders against builder Ceerose and developer Zone Q, after partially winning its initial case.

A judge has tossed a case by Singaporean commodities trader UIL, finding it did not have binding agreements to buy 500,000 metric tonnes of coal annually from two NSW coal miners controlled by Jindal Steel.

A judge has refused a bid by engineering firm Destec to purge a contempt after the company posted videos produced by MinRes in an IP fight, finding it failed to fully and frankly explain the breach. 

An appeals court has shot down a challenge to a valuation for the country’s largest solar farm and said the Land Valuation Act should be amended to clarify the definition of an ‘urban purpose.’

The High Court has knocked back shipping company CSL Australia’s attempt to avoid paying millions of dollars in damages after its cement carrier crashed into two tugboats docked in a Tasmanian port. 

Engineering firm Monadelphous has lost a bid to suspend $3.3 million in adjudication judgments secured by contractor Aaro Group in a dispute over works at BHP's Eastern Ridge mine.