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Seven refused extension for handing over emails with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers
Arthur Moses 2023-08-11 1:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Kerry Stokes and Seven Network have lost their bid for an extension to produce 8,600 emails exchanged between the media company and Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers in Fairfax’s bid for costs in defending the defamation case over alleged war crimes 

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Super fund suing Slater & Gordon looks to join Allegro Funds
Corporate 2023-08-11 11:53 am By Sam Matthews

A self-managed superannuation that has taken Slater & Gordon to court over the acquisition of its shares in the firm by Allegro Funds is seeking to join the private equity firm to the proceeding.

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Facing new indictment over hotel quarantine, Victoria wants class action defence kept secret
Adam Hochroth 2023-08-10 2:36 pm By Sam Matthews

The state of Victoria is making a bid to suppress its defence in a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine fiasco, as it faces a “substantially altered” indictment in a related criminal proceeding.

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Roberts-Smith wants judge to recuse himself from deciding if OSI can see evidence
Arthur Moses 2023-08-07 1:03 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ben Roberts-Smith has argued a judge should recuse himself from deciding if the Office of the Special Investigator can access his defamation court file, arguing the public might think he was biased and wanted to “further” his findings that the former SAS corporal committed war crimes.  In a case management hearing on Monday, Arthur Moses…

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Crumbs! Kraft loses opposition to Mars patent for chocolate flavour
Ben Fitzpatrick 2023-08-03 11:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

An IP Australia delegate has shot down Kraft’s opposition to a Mars patent for a less costly method for producing the distinct creaminess and flavour of crumb chocolate.

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Seven, Kerry Stokes must hand over emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers
Addisons 2023-07-31 11:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fairfax can see 8,600 emails that passed between Seven’s commercial director and Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as it seeks significant defence costs in the accused war criminal’s unsuccessful defamation case, a judge has ruled. 

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Cosmetic Institute surgeons can’t declass breast implant action
Anthony McInerney 2023-07-28 4:28 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has tossed out an application by a group of surgeons who formerly worked for The Cosmetic Institute to declass a representative proceeding on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they suffered injury or complications from breast augmentation surgery.

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8,600 emails passed between Seven and Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation lawyers, court told
Addisons 2023-07-27 1:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A “striking” 8,600 emails passed between Seven’s commercial director and Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team, suggesting the media company was actively involved in the unsuccessful defamation case, Fairfax has argued as it seeks significant defence costs.

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Fairfax wants Seven, Herbert Smith Freehills emails in Ben Roberts-Smith case
Addisons 2023-07-21 2:11 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Seven Network and law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Addisons are fighting Fairfax’s bid for communications relating to Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful defamation case, as the publisher seeks its significant defence costs. 

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Doctors class action won’t take precedence over union-backed cases
Catherine Gleeson 2023-07-19 11:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A union representing 54 junior doctors alleging they were systemically underpaid has defeated a bid by NSW Health to stay its case until the determination of a related class action on behalf of tens of thousands of medical officers. 

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