An appeals court has thrown out the Democratic Republic of East Timor’s second bid to stay a case brought against it by Lighthouse Corporation over $328 million in alleged losses stemming from a failed fuel supply contract.
The operator of a Vietnamese mine has dropped its Federal Court proceedings against WorleyParsons subsidiary Jacobs E&C over the enforcement of a $132 million arbitration award.
The Federal Court has stayed a lawsuit seeking to enforce a $183 million international arbitration award against the Kingdom of Spain over a solar farm investment while the country seeks to have the award annulled.
South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corporation has launched two bids in Singapore to set aside a US$94 million (AU$138 million) award relating to its dispute with Spanish energy company Duro Felguera over the Pilbara-based Roy Hill iron ore mine.
Spanish oil and gas company Duro Felguera has filed Federal Court proceedings to enforce a $139 million arbitration award related to the Pilbara-based Roy Hill mine, which is majority owned by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting.
The Kingdom of Spain is contesting attempts to enforce two arbitration awards worth $392 million in the Federal Court, claiming sovereign immunity as it attempts to shut the proceedings down.
The government of East Timor will appeal a Victorian Supreme Court judgment dismissing its application to throw out a case brought by oil and gas firm Lighthouse Corporation over a failed fuel supply agreement.
Engineering firm Jacobs E&C, which was acquired by WorleyParsons last year, has said it will resist an arbitration judgment of around $132 million handed down against it in March to the operator of a Vietnamese mine.
A judge has sent a dispute between oil giant Viva Energy and a Panama-based oil transporter over petroleum allegedly contaminated during transport into arbitration.
The High Court has sided with Gina Rinehart in relation to a dispute with two of her children over billions of dollars in iron ore mining assets, saying the matter should be heard in arbitration.