Mineral Resources has had its request to obtain the state development agreement between Pilbara Ports and Chevron slapped down, as a trial nears over levies the state says the miner owes.
A subsidiary of Mineral Commodities has been prevented from exercising voting rights amid a legal dispute over Skaland Graphite, a Norwegian company it acquired for $12.9 million.
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has ruled on what should be redacted from documents related to the legal proceedings between Mineral Resources and Destec.
A Kalgoorlie-Boulder engineering company is believed to owe about $5.2 million to 195 creditors, with a Supreme Court ruling giving its liquidators the power to sell assets.
Chris Ellison-led Mineral Resources and business partner-turned-rival Steve Wyatt's Destec have reached a peace deal over a highly-charged document-swap, as the battle over their rail venture continues.
A former contractor of a failed Pindan entity has been brought out of liquidation to allow the construction company to pursue an insurance payout over alleged building defects.
A Perth businessman has failed in his bid to claw back $500,000 from financial advisor Gui De Castro and end a year-long legal battle over what he claims was a bungled investment deal.
Lanskey Constructions has lost its court bid to stop WesTrac from retrieving $170,000 in bank guarantees over delays to the expansion of its Welshpool facility.
A court has overturned a June 2020 ruling requiring Synergy to pay the owners of the Newgen Kwinana power station a fee for periods when the plant was in reserve.
The former chief of financial advisory firm PMM Group is facing another lawsuit from an investor, taking the total of the claims against him to more than $2 million.
John Holland and the state government have both had partial successes ahead of a trial in October 2022 over a $180 million Perth Children's Hospital contract dispute.
Galaxy Resources' $4 billion merger with Queensland lithium producer Orocobre will come into effect later this month after the plan was approved by the Western Australian Supreme Court today.
The Supreme Court has granted a freezing order over a property linked to former PMM Group chief executive Gui De Castro to support a legal claim over his alleged failure to transfer $550,000 in shares.
Synergy has lost a Supreme Court judgement this week which will require it to pay the owners of the Newgen Power Kwinana power station for periods when the gas plant was ready on standby to supply the grid.
Attorney General John Quigley has announced Clifford Chance partner Jenni Hill has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and Justice John Vaughan to the Court of Appeal.
Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.
Nine international and interstate law firms have entered the WA market in the past two-and-a-half years and more are likely to follow. The industry is still debating what it really means.
