Western Australia

Western Power has hired the former Sex Discrimination Commissioner to lead a review into its workplace culture and safety, as MinterEllison investigates claims that employees provided character references for a former manager convicted of raping a colleague. 

Former West Coast Eagles player Daniel Venables' case against two doctors and a neurologist has been struck out, with a judge finding he had failed to adequately plead a negligence case.

A developer has lost its bid for preliminary discovery for a possible case against the Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline over representations made about pipeline upgrades needed for a proposed development in the town of North Dandalup.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

A contractor on a project in the Pilbara has lost its bid for a $1.5 million freezing order against a subcontractor, with a judge finding no evidence it would be unable to satisfy any future judgment related to their payments dispute.

The developer behind the rebranding of the Seasons of Perth hotel wants the High Court to weigh in on Western Australia's security of payment laws, in a case it says goes to the heart of the biggest issue confronting Australia's administrative law.

Growthpoint Properties has agreed to sell its Woolworths distribution centre at Perth Airport to Western Australian developer Hesperia for $267.7 million.

The failed construction business of Allmine Group's Arccon was not insolvent when it paid $7 million in tax liabilities, despite signs of financial distress, a judge has found, dismissing a case by a liquidator's assignee against the tax office.

Human experience must remain central to judicial decision-making, a top judge has warned, even as he acknowledged that artificial intelligence was just as capable as civil law judges of fair adjudication.