Plumbing company Repipe has asked the High Court to take up its case centred on the controversial issue of patent eligibility for computer-implemented inventions, seeking to overturn a judgment it argues sets a new and impermissible test.
Former Attorney-General Christian Porter and senior barrister Sue Chrysanthou have met with partial success in an eleventh hour bid to halt an order for payment of a $430,000 bill in a court battle with a friend of Porter’s rape accuser.
Allens has lured leading M&A tax lawyer Ellen Thomas from PricewaterhouseCoopers to strengthen the Big Six firm’s expertise in mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions.
A class action against failed Fairview Architectural over alleged combustible cladding hangs in the balance as a court sets the stage for a fight with insurer Vero over a $190 million policy.
BHP’s policy requiring Queensland workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and show proof of the jab has withstood a challenge from mining unions that claimed the rule was unreasonable and breached the Privacy Act.
A judge overseeing two class actions against Romeo’s has ditched what has become the commonplace hearing in weighing a settlement of the cases, but experts say approval applications in group proceedings should ideally be heard in open court.
A judge who has been an enthusiastic lab rat in the virtual hearing experiment forced on the country’s courts by the COVID-19 pandemic has expressed doubts that he is accurately reading witnessses giving remote evidence.
Clothing chain Cotton On Group and jeweller Lovisa are the latest targets of potential underpayments class actions for allegedly failing to pay employees for extra hours worked.
Western Australia premier Mark McGowan has been ordered to appear in person in a Sydney court to give evidence at trial in a defamation case by mining billionaire Clive Palmer, but a judge has pushed back the hearing so McGowan can attend state parliament.
The Federal Court has issued a worldwide freezing order over the assets of Bill Papas’ partner, which includes the proceeds of the $1.13 million sale of her home in Sydney’s inner west.