A bitter legal battle over Gina Rinehart's massive mining fortune goes to trial today. 9News
is set to return to Western Australia's Supreme Court, as a bitter legal battle over her massive mining fortune goes to trial.
It will demand a half share in the Hope Downs mines and royalties when the long-running stoush begins in the Supreme Court, almost 13 years after it started. The trial is expected to run until November, with any judgment potentially superseded by the looming outcome of Federal Court arbitration between Hancock Prospecting and Rinehart's children concerning the same issues.
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