A judge has questioned whether Tiwi Islanders’ delay in filing an application to stop Santos from beginning drilling on an offshore gas project this month may have doomed the bid.
An investment consultant at Kahlbetzer family investment vehicle Twynam Investments has filed a lawsuit alleging she was sacked over the phone a month after telling the company she was planning for a baby.
A judge has ordered that a competition class action against Queensland power companies Stanwell and CS Energy be made open to all energy consumers in the state, saying it was not a “plain vanilla” commercial class action.
Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.
Western Australian energy company UON has won a bid to file amended claims in two Federal Court proceedings over a mining invention it says was stolen by a rival, after DLA Piper took over the cases from local firm Bennett + Co.
A judge has tossed a class action brought by a self-represented applicant against Wilson Security, saying class actions should not be run without lawyers.
Tiwi islanders in a Federal Court challenge to the Barossa offshore gas project have won an expedited trial, but the case won’t be heard before drilling starts in mid-July.
Cruise operator Scenic Tours is appealing a courtroom loss that could see it owing $25 million in damages in a class action by travelers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus from city to city due to heavy rain and high water levels.
Construction giant Hutchinson has succeeded in bringing claims against a related entity of a Port Melbourne property developer over a $153 million project after alleging the developer was a “company of straw” that had no assets.
The Australian Conservation Foundation has brought proceedings against oil and gas producer Woodside Energy, arguing its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia cannot go ahead until its climate impacts are assessed.