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Bega Cheese has presuaded a court to allow a partner from Addisons Lawyers to access select confidential documents, expanding the confidentiality regime at the heart of its dispute with Fonterra Brands over an allegedly violated trade mark licence agreement.
Two generic pharmaceutical companies, Generic Partners and Apotex, have filed cross-claims alleging that Neurim Pharmaceuticals' patent for its insomnia drug Circadin is invalid and should be revoked.
Litigation funder Litigation Capital Management will snap up 30 percent of a confidential settlement amount that KPMG has fought to keep under wraps in a shareholder class action over a failed $830 million hostile takeover bid of mining firm Discovery Metals.
Social media companies will face criminal penalties for failing to promptly remove live-streaming of violent content under a harsh new law that whisked through the Federal Parliament in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, but the world-first law has been slammed by Australia's peak legal body.
A judge has agreed to postpone a trial against logistics provider GetSwift until next year when a class action and a lawsuit by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission related to the company's disclosures will be heard consecutively rather than concurrently.
IP Australia has ordered biotech firm MacroGenics to amend its patent for a type of polypeptide used in treatments for cancer, autoimmune disorders and other diseases after a successful opposition from the chairman of intellectual property boutique Wrays.
Maurice Blackburn is investigating a possible shareholder class action against construction company Lendlease over allegedly inadequate disclosures relating to its engineering and services business, which includes the NorthConnex tunnel road project in Sydney.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal proceedings against a former Chatime franchisee for allegedly underpaying 17 employees over $46,000 at its Sydney CBD store.
An insolvent mobile ticketing company wants a slew of documents from HWL Ebsworth related to its allegations that an HWL partner aided its former directors in diverting the proceeds of a life insurance policy to pay money owed to the firm.
An appeals court has sided with the tax office in a dispute against two corporate limited partnerships formed in the Cayman Islands, finding that ATO tax assessments issued for the sale of shares in global mining company Talison Lithium were valid and correct.