The WA Supreme Court has denied Gina Rinehart’s children John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart’s application to access dozens of documents and correspondence that were made between their mother and her lawyers dating back decades. The siblings were trying to get hold of the documents to push their case in aContinue Reading
John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart, the eldest children of mining magnate Gina Rinehart, have shown up to Western Australia’s Supreme Court in person as their lawyer begins his closing address. The lengthy legal battle, which began in July, involves several parties claiming a share of iron ore mining royalties ownedContinue Reading
The lawyer for the eldest children of Gina Rinehart has further detailed a rift between Australia’s richest woman and her mining magnate father in the years before his death. Christopher Withers SC, representing John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart in the civil case against their billionaire mother, continued his opening statementsContinue Reading
Lawyers for the company founded by mining pioneer Lang Hancock have told a court he left it in such a precarious position when he died, that he almost sent it bankrupt. Sydney Barrister Noel Hutley SC detailed the “errors” Mr Hancock made in his later life – all in aContinue Reading
The founding father of Western Australia’s iron ore industry repeatedly and selfishly breached his fiduciary duties to his own company to benefit him and his second wife, a Perth court has heard. Lawyer for Hancock Prospecting, Noel Hutley SC, told a mammoth civil trial in the West Australian Supreme CourtContinue Reading
The lawyer representing West Australian prospectors DFD Rhodes has begun opening statements in the massive civil case against Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL). It’s the second week of a months-long trial against HPPL, as a number of entities try to claim a share of lucrative mining royalties fromContinue Reading
The lawyers for one of the mining entities embroiled in a legal stoush with Australia’s richest woman has presented “significant evidence” before Western Australia’s Supreme Court. Tuesday was the second day of months of hearings to be held as Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd and executive chairman Gina Rinehart fend offContinue Reading
What could potentially be a months-long legal clash between titans of Western Australia’s mining industry has had its first day of hearings in a Perth Court. Opening statements were heard on Monday as Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting fends off lucrative royalty claims from the former business partners of her famousContinue Reading
Two of Australia’s richest women are set to battle it out over a multi-billion dollar legal dispute, in what will be one of the country’s most expensive courtroom showdowns. The companies of Gina Rinehart and Angela Bennett – the daughters of mining pioneers Lang Hancock and Peter Wright, respectively –Continue Reading