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Wagners wins appeal in multi-million dollar cement supply dispute with Boral
Appeals 2021-01-19 6:08 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Building products supplier Wagners has successfully challenged a Queensland Supreme Court judgment ruling in favour of Boral in a high-stakes cement supply dispute between the construction giants.

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‘Lawyers hate losing control’: Toyota class action referee process rankles judge
Amy Munro 2021-01-19 12:10 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A judge has rebuked the “procedural vulgarities” plaguing a referee’s supplementary report in a class action against Toyota over allegedly defective vehicles and has called for the process to be simplified.

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KPMG lures NewLaw ace for digitisation push
Business of Law 2021-01-18 10:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

KPMG Law has snagged a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner and NewLaw expert to lead its recently formed legal operations transformation services team, which the firm says has already delivered more than US$200 million in savings to in-house legal teams.

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ACCC mulls legal action after Google completes $3B FitBit acquisition
ACCC 2021-01-18 4:00 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The ACCC is considering taking legal action against Google after the search giant completed its $3 billion acquisition of fitness device company FitBit before the consumer watchdog could finish its investigation into the transaction.

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Blockchain firm founder beats back AFR’s bid to nix defamation case
Banki Haddock Fiora 2021-01-18 12:42 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen Melbourne

A judge has shot down an attempt by the publisher of the Australian Financial Review to permanently stay a defamation lawsuit brought by blockchain firm Power Ledger, after the media company claimed it had had failed to comply with discovery obligations.

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Clayton Utz teams up with funder ICP for business interruption insurance class action
Bannister Law 2021-01-18 12:05 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Law firm Clayton Utz and litigation funder Investor Claim Partners have joined forces to bring a class action against insurers who have denied business interruption claims by business impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Senior IOOF executive accused of sexually harassing employee at her wedding
Employment 2021-01-15 3:25 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A former portfolio manager of IOOF has sued the firm for discrimination and breaches of the Fair Work Act, alleging she was groped on the breasts by a high ranking senior executive on her wedding day.

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News of Chau Chak Wing’s defamation win can’t be used by publishers in defence of reputation damage
ABC 2021-01-15 2:57 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen Melbourne

A judge has shot down a bid by Nine, the ABC and a high-profile journalist to use articles reporting on Dr Chau Chak Wing’s $280,000 defamation victory as evidence mitigating the harm to his reputation from a report at the centre of a separate defamation case.

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Wyeth seeks total victory in vaccine patent battle with Merck Sharp & Dohme
Allens 2021-01-15 8:53 am By Cat Fredenburgh Sydney

Pfizer unit Wyeth is seeking to overturn part of a judge’s decision in its high-stakes patent dispute with Merck Sharp & Dohme that found claims in two of its patents relating to the blockbuster Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine were invalid.

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Macquarie’s ‘defective’ payment system should have rung alarm bells, judge says
Anthony Britt 2021-01-14 5:33 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen Melbourne

Macquarie Bank has been ordered to fork out $330,000 to dozens of former advisers for a “defective and deficient” system which saw the bank fail to pay a raft of employment entitlements.

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