A tribunal has awarded a tunneller who worked on major projects like the Lane Cove tunnel project a record $2.4 for dust-related injury, describing the safety breaches of Bennett’s employers over his 30-year career as “egregious”.
A community group has lost a legal challenge to a 50-60 km underground pipeline that will connect Santos’ $3.6 billion Narrabri gas project to the Hunter gas pipeline.
An AGL-backed consortium has pulled the plug on the 2.5 gigawatt Gippsland Skies offshore wind energy project in Victoria, citing economic concerns.
An appeals court has reversed a decision awarding $2.1 million to Calibre, the builder of the ‘Sky Gardens’ residential development in Ryde, finding developer Kalorizkio had validly offset the claim.
An expert will not be asked to determine a potential cross-claim by Downer EDI Rail in a dispute with John Holland over a rollingstock manufacturing facility being constructed in Torbanlea.
Chevron Australia and its joint venture partners behind the Gorgon LNG project off the northwest coast of Western Australia have made a final investment decision to begin the third stage of development.
A South Australian solicitor and two Victorian barristers, including a silk, have been referred to the legal watchdogs in their states over court filings that contained AI-hallucinated citations.
A prominent silk renowned for his “intellectual precision” and “impeccable taste” has been sworn in as the newest judge of the NSW Supreme Court.
Slater & Gordon has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a negligence suit by a former human resources executive who claims she was wrongfully accused of sending a firm-wide email containing sensitive salary data.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lost his challenge to a finding that that he raped colleague Brittany Higgins, with an appeals court going further in finding Lehrmann was not just recklessly indifferent to Higgins’ consent, but knew she was not consenting and “proceeded nonetheless”.
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