Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has struck back at a defamation lawsuit by Clive Palmer, filing a counterclaim accusing the mining magnate of making a number of defamatory statements, including that he was a “liar” involved in “covering up” illegal activity.
Australian mining company Mineral Commodities has settled its contractual dispute with international garnet supplier GMA Garnet, which has agreed to pay around $23 million and purchase almost one million tonnes of mineral sands.
Clive Palmer has brought another lawsuit trying to stifle funding for a class action filed by villa owners at the deserted Palmer Coolum Resort on the Sunshine Coast.
A court has granted Adani Mining an interim injunction preventing an environmental activist from using confidential information obtained through covert infiltration campaigns aimed at opposing the controversial Carmichael coal mine.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge has given the greenlight to a $5.7 million settlement in a class action brought by those injured during a 2016 stampede at the Falls Music and Arts Festival.
Human resource management company Harrier Group has been sued by its former managing director and CEO, who alleges she was bullied and overworked.
An independent costs consultant has raised concerns about the legal costs sought by Maddens Lawyers from a $5.7 million settlement of the Falls Festival class action after the senior barrister leading the case delayed signing off on his rates with the law firm for a year.
A court has ordered a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group to pay more than $106 million to four coal mining companies after finding the mining company engaged in “dishonest behaviour” and misled the court.
Coal miner Adani has lost its bid to search the home of a protester seeking to block its Carmichael Mine project in central Queensland, with a court ruling it had not cleared the bar for the “unusual and extraordinary” orders.
The son of controversial class action lawyer Mark Elliott has hired a big gun barrister to represent him in the Banksia class action proceedings and will be asking the judge overseeing the case against him to step aside.