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The High Court will hear a $130 million case by two contractors on Chevron's Gorgon gas field project, which argue the Western Australia Court of Appeal was outside power to uphold a ruling that set aside an arbitration win.
A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia's system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
New High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler was lauded by a group of legal luminaries at a swearing in ceremony, where he was described as the “unbackable favourite” for the country’s highest legal post and “the judge’s judge”.
The High Court has granted special leave to a First Nations woman in her case for damages against Queensland stemming from alleged abuse in state care 60 years ago.
Glencore-owned Viterra has failed in its bid for High Court leave to challenge a ruling in a 10-year battle with Cargill over the 2013 sale of malt producer Joe White, leaving the grain producer to fork over damages of almost $300 million.
The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm's partnership.
The High Court has refused to throw out a personal injury case over 55-year-old child sexual abuse claims, despite the death of the alleged perpetrator and most relevant witnesses, saying a permanent stay is a “measure of last resort”.
The High Court has found that tenants can be compensated for distress and disappointment caused by a landlord’s failure to meet a statutory requirement to maintain the security of a property, in a case brought by an elderly tenant from a remote Indigenous community whose house had no back door for over five years.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on the extent of advocate’s immunity in a dispute between a Sydney solicitor and his former clients, after an appeals court found he couldn’t be sued for negligence for failure to include a breach of contract claim in a building dispute.
The High Court will consider an exception to the general immunity of foreign states for the first time, as it hears an appeal of a decision which found Indonesia's national airline could avail itself of foreign state immunity to defeat a winding up application.