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Court tosses challenges to Woodside expansion of Scarborough LNG project
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-03-02 11:21 am By Miklos Bolza

The WA Supreme Court has thrown out challenges to Woodside Energy’s proposals to expand its Scarborough LNG project, finding there were no errors in the state EPA’s approval.

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Sailors seek ‘very high figure’ in Navy training class action
Class Actions 2022-02-28 6:38 pm By Bianca Hrovat

The federal government has argued it should not have to pay the “very high figure” former Royal Australian Navy sailors are seeking in compensation for a breached training contract that allegedly saw them denied a higher rate of pay.

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‘Wolf trader’ can wait until ASIC shows its cards, judge says
Financial Services 2022-02-25 3:32 pm By Bianca Hrovat

The self-declared “wolf trader” of the Gold Coast, Tyson Scholz, will not have to provide a concise statement in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s case accusing him of providing unlicensed financial services, a judge has ruled.

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Second woman appointed to chief justice role in Queensland
Courts 2022-02-25 10:46 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Supreme Court of Queensland judge Helen Bowskill has been named the state’s new chief justice, only the second woman to ever hold the position.

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Leading M&A lawyer elected chair of MinterEllison
Business of Law 2022-02-24 9:46 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Australia’s largest law firm MinterEllison has announced the election of leading mergers and acquisitions and government practice lawyer Andrew Rentoul to the position of chairman.

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Senator Matt Canavan’s brother can probe claims against Glencore
Restructuring & Insolvency 2022-02-23 6:16 pm By Miklos Bolza

The brother of Liberal Senator and former resources minister Matt Canavan can investigate potential claims against Glencore in his long running legal spat over the Rolleston coal mine, after a court greenlit his bid for the appointment of special purpose liquidators.

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Wotif founder ordered to pay $15M in aquaculture share dispute
Corporate 2022-02-23 2:28 pm By Miklos Bolza

Philanthropist and Wotif founder Graeme Wood will have to pay more than $15 million after the Victoria Supreme Court found one of his companies had breached an agreement to act as guarantor for the $73 million sale of a Queensland aquaculture business.

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ACCC faces tough questions in appeal of NSW Ports competition case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-02-17 2:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

An appeals court grilled counsel for the ACCC on the first day of a hearing challenging the dismissal of its case over a NSW government deal to privatise two ports, calling on the lawyer to spell out how the state was alleged to be in competition with the consortium that took over the ports.

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‘Vicious rhetoric’: WA premier’s remarks about Clive Palmer more than name-calling
Defamation 2022-02-14 10:20 pm By Sam Matthews

Comments made about Clive Palmer by Western Australia premier Mark McGowan in press conferences were “heavy with historical and sinister significance”, a court has heard on the first day of trial in the mining billionaire’s defamation case. 

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Ben Roberts-Smith described killing of Afghan teen as ‘most beautiful thing’, court told
Defamation 2022-02-11 1:16 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Australia’s most decorated Afghanistan war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a former SAS soldier that when he “blew the brains out” of a young Afghan man it was “the most beautiful thing [he’d] ever seen”, a court has heard.

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