Stillwater gears up for Australian antitrust appeal battle with Stanwell

By Saloni Sinha ( February 27, 2026, 06:05 GMT | Insight) -- The long-running antitrust class action brought by Stillwater Pastoral against generators Stanwell and CS Energy is set to return to court for a two-week appeal hearing, challenging a 2024 judgment that found the companies had not breached Australian competition laws. In an appeal filed in February 2025, Stillwater said Judge Sarah Derrington “erred in failing to identify and apply the correct test to the question of whether each of the [companies] had a substantial degree of power in the relevant market.”The long-running antitrust class action brought by Stillwater Pastoral against generators Stanwell and CS Energy is set to return to court for a two-week appeal hearing, challenging a 2024 judgment that found the companies had not breached Australian competition laws....

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Stillwater gears up for Australian antitrust appeal battle with Stanwell

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