Practice Areas

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the approval of Bowen Basin Coal's Meadowbrook project to extend its Lake Vermont open cut coal mine near Dysart, over objections from environmental activists.

A judge presiding over a decade-long class action over alleged defective Ford vehicles has raised concerns about the prospect of conflicting Full Federal Court judgments, as issues over damages continue.

Aristocrat has taken gaming giant Konami to court, alleging that more than 50 of the Japanese company's casino games infringe its patents. 

Former Today host Karl Stefanovic is being sued by his podcast business partner, who alleges oppressive conduct and is seeing a buyout of her shares. 

The Northern Territory's public housing authority can amend its defence in a class action alleging it failed to maintain habitable housing in remote Aboriginal communities to allege that tenants failed to keep housing "reasonably clean".

REA Group's listings site will no longer require agents to provide it with all or most of their listings, after the ACCC expressed concerns the restrictive contract terms could breach competition laws.

A Treasury Wine Estates unit has lost its bid to trade mark a red wine bottle with a red screw top, an embossed crest and white label, with a delegate finding it lacked distinctiveness.

A company controlled by Paul Chiodo has lobbed a $200 million suit targeting City Built director Roberto Filippini, with the former Keystone director joining the company's liquidators in chasing millions in allegedly misappropriated development funds.

Administrators of OneSteel Manufacturing will shutter the blast furnace at the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia and let 600 workers go, after the failure of recovery efforts to restore operations.

The Northern Territory has foreshadowed a strike-out application in a "far from straightforward" class action alleging racial discrimination against Aboriginal Community Police Officers over decades.