The tobacco industry is using various countries as proxies to attack Australia's requirement for plain packaging of cigarettes.

The article speculates that they are trying to drag the cases out because they expect to lose in the end, but meanwhile the WTO enables them to intimidate other countries.

It will be good if they do lose, but the WTO will have done substantial harm in this case even so. Just one of the ways the WTO harms most people (while it helps businesses). The WTO should be abolished.