ASIC has asked a Federal Court registrar who previously worked at Herbert Smith Freehills to step down from overseeing remaining costs disputes in its failed case against former Tennis Australia president Steven Healy, who is represented by the Big Six firm.
The Full Court has upheld two judgments that shortened patent term extensions granted to Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Ono Pharmaceuticals, finding the extension regime cannot be construed as achieving a “commercial outcome for a patentee”.
The Full Federal Court has overturned a historic judgment that found the federal minister for the environment owed a duty of care to Australians under 18 to protect them from ‘catastrophic’ harm caused by the approval of the Vickery coal mine expansion.
ANZ has hit back at claims in a class action that it slugged retrospective interest on credit card accounts and that its interest terms were not explicit, arguing the term ‘retrospective’ is liable to “confuse” the issues to be decided by the court.
A judge will approve a $28 million settlement resolving a class action against Arnold Bloch Leibler over advice the law firm gave to Slater & Gordon ahead of a disastrous acquisition. A 28 per cent commission for the case’s funder will also get the court’s nod.
Bayer says the patents office was wrong to quash an extension for its patent covering an oral contraceptive on the grounds that its application should have been based on a drug with an earlier approval date.
Administrators for building giant ProBuild have won more time to examine its assets as they try to avoid the “nightmarish prospect” of costly delays to the company’s projects.
The ACCC got what it wanted when IVF providers Virtus Health and Healius terminated a proposed $45 million merger, but it wasn’t a win, a judge has said in mostly denying the regulator’s bid to recover the costs of its court challenge to the deal.
Judgments shooting down a class closure order and nixing notice of a possible class closure order were “plainly wrong” and “infected” by faulty reasoning, the Full Federal Court has heard.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn deliberately appropriated the iconic Fearless Girl statue in order to promote its own gender equality credentials, the Full Federal Court has heard.