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A group of Queensland youths and rural landowners are suing Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal for alleged human rights breaches over concerns the company's Galilee Coal project may fuel dangerous climate change that puts their futures at risk.
Shine Lawyers and barrister David Turner have once again dodged a negligence lawsuit over advice given about a $630,000 contractual dispute, with an appeals court upholding an earlier decision dismissing a bid to join the two parties.
A group of Queensland taxi drivers has lost the bulk of a lawsuit seeking compensation from the state government for losses allegedly caused by ride sharing services like Uber, with a court dismissing the drivers' claims as "fanciful".
A hearing to determine damages in the Queensland floods class action will proceed next week despite an appeal brought by the two dam operators that were found liable for the 2011 floods in the state that destroyed 2,000 homes.
Funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort has been temporarily blocked while a company owned by Clive Palmer appeals a judgment in a separate lawsuit lodged by the billionaire to thwart the class action.
The Fair Work Commission has found that BHP's decision to fire a mine worker and self-professed 'larrikin' for a single crude joke was unjustified, but the employee's attempts to throw other staff "under the bus" during an internal investigation were valid reasons for the dismissal.
Farmers in a class action against Advanta Seeds over allegedly contaminated sorghum have defeated a bid by the company to hand over a list of all group members who have signed funding agreements to join the case.
A company owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost its bid to temporarily block funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort, with the Federal Court finding that special levies garnered from villa owners to back the proceedings were above board and legal.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a general protections dispute brought by an "agoraphobic" beautician after social media posts revealed an active social life including gin, Greek food and the Melbourne Cup.
A company owned by Clive Palmer has filed a lawsuit seeking to thwart a class action brought by villa owners in the billionaire's now abandoned Palmer Coolum Resort.