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Court OKs mid-trial climate report in fight over Whitehaven mine
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-08 11:58 pm By Andy Sidler

Two conservation groups opposing Whitehaven Coal’s Winchester South coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin have won court approval to adduce late expert evidence on possible climate scenarios.

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State blasts ‘magical thinking’ of hotel quarantine class action
Class Actions 2025-07-03 11:54 pm By Sam Matthews

The state of Victoria has attacked the “magical thinking” of a class action over its COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, as the applicants seek to plead an alternative case holding the state responsible for a wave of infections.

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Regeneron sues Sandoz over Eylea biosimilar
Intellectual Property 2025-07-02 11:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

US biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has sued Sandoz, claiming it is threatening to infringe the patent for its Eylea biologic, used to treat macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema.

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Nine says contempt bid against lawyers, journalists ‘doomed’
Media 2025-06-25 11:34 pm By Andy Sidler

Nine has argued a contempt bid by intervenors in Antoinette Latouff’s dismissal suit against the ABC is “doomed” given the articles  at issue were published a year before a suppression order was made.

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Developer loses challenge to Victorian waste-to-energy plant
Construction 2025-06-24 11:15 pm By Andy Sidler

A real estate developer based in the Victorian town slated as the location for a waste-to-energy plant has lost its challenge to the proposed project.

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Hotel quarantine class action wants to put on ‘impossibly different’ case, court told
Class Actions 2025-06-19 2:27 pm By Sam Matthews

The state of Victoria has sounded alarm bells about an amendment application by a class action over the COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, telling a judge it amounts to a new case with an “infinite number of permutations”.

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Element Zero to fight Fortescue’s bid for 9M docs seized under search order
Intellectual Property 2025-06-19 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

Green iron start-up Element Zero has said it will fight Fortescue’s bid to access nearly nine million documents collected under a controversial search order in the mining giant’s case alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron. 

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High Court asked to hear Ben Roberts-Smith case against Nine
Defamation 2025-06-17 11:11 pm By Christine Caulfield

Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is digging in with his attack on a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, asking the High Court to find in his favour in a defamation case against Nine.

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MinterEllison advises Johns Lyng on Pacific Equity Partners’ buyout offer
M&A 2025-06-11 11:04 pm By Christine Caulfield

Johns Lyng Group confirmed Wednesday it had received a takeover offer from Pacific Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum and has granted the private equity firm an exclusivity period to undergo due diligence.

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High Court sides with Valuer-General over St Kilda Rd heritage property
Real Estate 2025-06-11 11:32 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Valuer-General of Victoria has won a High Court appeal against developer WSTI Properties over a $2.9 million valuation for a heritage property in Melbourne, which centred on the meaning of an “improvement” to the land. 

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