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Calgary CFO convicted for misstating company revenue
Article 2019-02-20 10:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The former chief financial officer for Calvary Health Care has been convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to making false records that misstated the company’s revenue by millions of dollars.

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Court to issue speedy ruling on Sanofi’s second stab at injector pen injunction
Appeals 2019-02-20 9:48 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Full Federal Court will issue its judgment Friday in French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi’s challenge to a judge’s refusal to block Alphapharm from listing an insulin injector pen on the PBS, just two weeks after the court heard arguments in the appeal.

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Landmark personal leave challenge by Mondelez gets Full Court’s attention
Employment 2019-02-20 9:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Full Federal Court on Thursday will hear arguments in an employment case that calls into question the meaning of the personal leave provisions of the Fair Work Act and could have significant ramifications for how companies calculate the entitlement for shift workers.

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Gov’t sued for supplying water to Adani’s $2B Carmichael coal mine
Anna Mitchelmore 2019-02-20 3:22 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Federal Government failed to read public submissions in approving a “flawed” assessment of a project supplying Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine with over 12.5 billion litres of water, an environmental group has told a court.

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ASIC foreshadows multiple criminal cases in wake of royal commission
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-02-19 11:00 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

ASIC has wasted no time in the wake of a critical report from the banking royal commission, reporting a 50 percent spike in investigations into financial services companies since the beginning of the month and promising a number of criminal referrals are on the horizon.

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Sandoz ordered to pay Lundbeck over $26.3M for infringing Lexapro patent
Clayton Utz 2019-02-19 10:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Generic drug maker Sandoz must pay $26.34 million to Danish pharmacuetical giant Lundbeck and a subsidiary for infringing the Australian patent behind the blockbuster antidepressant Lexapro, a judge has found.

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Draft expert reports fair game in $100M Gladstone Ports class action
Class Actions 2019-02-19 8:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Gladstone Ports has won access to draft expert reports prepared by Clyde & Co in its $100 million class action against the Queensland government owned organisation, with a judge ruling the documents were not privileged despite their not being used in the case.

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Neurim wins fight to amend patent for top-selling Circadin amid infringement case
David Shavin 2019-02-19 7:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

Drug maker Neurim Pharmaceuticals has won a bid to amend its Australian patent for top selling sleeping pill Circadin over the protests of two generic pharmaceutical companies, whch argued Neurim had purposely delayed the application to gain an unfair advantage in its infringement suit.

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“Something’s gone terribly wrong”: CIMIC slammed by class action judge
Allens 2019-02-19 2:37 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has reprimanded CIMIC Group’s preparations to defend a class action against it, saying a late attempt to file critical evidence was a sign something “pretty horrible” had gone on behind the scenes.

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Leyonhjelm loses second bid to dodge Hanson-Young defamation case
Defamation 2019-02-19 11:57 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm has lost his challenge to a ruling that denied his request for speedy dismissal of a defamation lawsuit by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on the grounds of Parliamentary privilege.

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