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A Sydney law firm that brought a class action against Boston Scientific over allegedly defective pelvic mesh products has agreed to stay its case while a class action by Shine Lawyers moves ahead.
Merck Sharp & Dohme has filed a lawsuit accusing rival drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb of misusing its market power by restricting access to a treatment program for stage IV melanoma patients.
Six of the world's largest car makers have agreed to settle class actions accusing them of selling cars with deadly Takata airbags.
Despite a judge's urging for the parties to arrive at a "pragmatic solution", the lawyers behind competing pelvic mesh class actions against Boston Scientific will duke it out for carriage of the proceedings.
Apple plans to appeal the Full Federal Court's decision that Epic Games' misuse of market power lawsuit over it App Store terms should be heard in Australia because the case raises issues of "fundamental public interest".
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has thrown out a lawsuit against billionaire mining heiress Angela Bennett and her brother Michal Wright over the estate of their father, mining magnate Peter Wright, despite finding the siblings breached their fiduciary duty and engaged in deceit and fraud.
A fight is looming over a bid by S&P Global for a class action applicant to pay security for the legal costs of defending the litigation, with the applicant arguing it shouldn't have to fork over anything.
The High Court has rejected a bid by a group of insurers to weigh in on a test case against COVID-19 related claims in business interruption policies, following a high stakes loss in the NSW Court of Appeal, which found an infectious disease exclusion did not apply.
Law firms are ordering staff in their Sydney offices to work from home if possible and avoid face-to-face meetings as the state's new rules requiring masks at all indoor workplaces takes effect.
Sacked climate skeptic professor Peter Ridd brought his case challenging his dismissal by James Cook University to the High Court on Wednesday, with a lawyer for Ridd telling the justices that his sacking was unlawful because intellectual freedom was a "foundational' principle that could not be subordinated to the university's code of conduct.