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Aurizon wins bid for Qube docs in ACCC case
Ashurst 2018-10-12 10:54 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Aurizon has won a request to view documents from Qube Holdings in the ACCC’s case alleging it reached an anti-competitive agreement with Pacific National for the sale of its intermodal freight business, as it pushes back against the competition regulator’s claim that there were other buyers vying for the business.

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QBE Insurance to pay $2.6M over collapsed steel mill
Hall & Wilcox 2018-10-09 9:02 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

QBE Insurance (Australia) has been ordered to pay over $2.6 million in compensation to cover losses after a series of mishaps led to the collapse of steel product manufacturer Independent Tube Mills in 2014.

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AGM denied anti-suit injunction to block ASIC case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-09-27 9:41 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

A judge has shot down a request by financial services company AGM that the court halt an ASIC  proceeding seeking to revoke its financial services licence while a Federal Court case against it progresses.

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Competing Murray Goulburn class actions look set to co-exist
Agriculture 2018-09-21 2:25 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The judge presiding over two shareholder class actions against Murray Goulburn indicated Friday he would likely let both cases proceed jointly to a trial in 2020.

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Shareholders to contest Bellamy’s cost-capping bid in class actions
Class Actions 2018-09-14 2:09 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A sought-after court order by organic baby food maker Bellamy’s to limit legal costs in two class actions won’t come without a fight, a barrister for the shareholders said Friday.

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Bellamy’s wants judge to limit costs of competing class actions
Class Actions 2018-09-07 9:28 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

A year after the Federal Court issued its important ruling on competing class actions and foreshadowed orders prohibiting duplicative legal fees, the company at the centre of the proceedings — organic baby food maker Bellamy’s — has called on the court to make good on its promise about costs.

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McMillan Shakespeare unit hit with class action over car warranties
Baker McKenzie 2018-09-06 10:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

A subsidiary of car leasing company McMillan Shakespeare faces a class action over vehicle warranties that gave the company “complete and unfettered” discretion to reject claims by customers.

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Codeine patents involve natural parts that can’t be patented, court told
Arnold Bloch Leibler 2018-09-06 3:12 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

TPI Enterprises has gone on the offensive in a patent lawsuit initiated by rival poppy processor Tasmanian Alkaloids, saying the patents at the centre of the suit describe natural parts that can’t be patented.

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AMP wins bid to move class actions to state court
Chief Justice James Allsop 2018-08-29 2:24 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

AMP has prevailed in a hard-fought fight over where it will defend five shareholder class actions brought in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission, in a precedent-setting judgement that provides a road map for future jurisdictional battles over competing class actions.

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ACCC tried to ‘micro-manage’ Pacific with injunction, judge says
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-15 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The judge overseeing the competition lawsuit brought by the ACCC over Aurizon’s proposed sale of its Queensland intermodal business to Pacific National has denied the regulator’s bid for an injunction against Pacific, saying it amounted to micro-managing that could discourage “normal competitive behaviour”.

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