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Seven tries to resurrect ‘7Now’ mark in IP stoush with 7-Eleven
7-Eleven 2023-06-26 11:41 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Seven Network has appealed a ruling that revoked its 7NOW trade mark for non-use in a victory for convenience chain 7-Eleven as it seeks to expand its presence in Australia.

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Sydney Trains driver sacked for drinking deserves rehearing, Full Court says
Appeals 2023-06-26 10:05 pm By Gareth Baker Sydney

The Full Court has held a Sydney Trains driver who worked the morning after blowing over four times the legal limit is entitled to a rehearing, finding the Fair Work Commission failed to properly consider a section of its own founding legislation. 

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Parking detection patents infringed by SARB’s Pinforce sensors, judge finds
Andrew McClelland 2023-06-26 12:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Tech company Vehicle Management Systems has won a long-running patent infringement dispute with rival SARB over a sensor-based system the City of Melbourne uses for timing parked vehicles. 

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Russia brings High Court challenge to embassy lease cancellation
Appeals 2023-06-23 10:19 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Russian Federation has taken its fight with the federal government over its plans to build a new embassy in Canberra to the High Court.

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Average payout to TFS pelvic mesh class action members kept out of notice
AJB Stevens 2023-06-23 3:47 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A class action on behalf of women injured by alleged defective pelvic mesh will not advise group members the estimated average return from the proceeds of a settlement against defunct device manufacturer TFS’ insurer because it would be “cruel”.

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Crown backpays $1.2M to employees wrongly classified as award-free
Crown Resorts 2023-06-23 4:36 pm By Gareth Baker Sydney

Casino operator Crown Resorts has agreed to backpay employees more than $1.2 million, after the company notified the Fair Work Ombudsman that it had underpaid workers at its Melbourne and Perth locations for almost six years. 

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Developer says Full Court ‘plainly wrong’ in tossing ACCC’s case against NSW Ports
Appeals 2023-06-22 11:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A New South Wales developer will mount a challenge to a Full Court decision that tossed the ACCC’s competition case against NSW Ports over an agreement to privatise two ports, arguing the majority ruling was “plainly wrong”.

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Quintis founder’s estate sequestered, in win for company with $15M claim
Agriculture 2023-06-22 11:26 pm By Christine Caulfield Sydney

A court has ordered the estate of Frank Wilson, founder of failed sandalwood producer Quintis, to be sequestered in a claim brought by Quintis subsidiary Arwon to recover an unpaid $15 million debt. 

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Human rights lawyers can intervene in ATO whistleblower case
Appeals 2023-06-22 4:27 pm By Gareth Baker Sydney

The Human Rights Law Centre has been given the go ahead to intervene as amicus curiae in the case of ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle, after a March ruling that the former debt collection officer could not rely on statutory whistleblower protections

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7-Eleven class action funder disputes ‘strong reasons’ for denying CFO
Appeals 2023-06-21 4:07 pm By Christine Caulfield

A litigation funder whose cut of a $98 million settlement in franchise class actions against 7-Eleven was slashed in half is challenging a judge’s finding that “strong reasons” exist to refuse it a common fund order.

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