A South Korean mining company that was seeking to establish an open-cut coal mine in Australia’s Bylong Valley has lost its bid to appeal to the High Court, which effectively ends its legal avenues to challenge the 2019 decision to scrap the project.
While many changes to litigation and advisory during COVID-19 have been largely welcomed by practitioners, there are still “teething issues” that could be addressed by partly returning to pre-pandemic ways of working, new research has found.