A contradictor in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has opposed Shine Lawyers recovering $100 million in costs from a $300 million settlement, which a judge has preliminarily found is not fair and reasonable to group members.
Israeli drug company Neurim Pharmaceuticals has lost a bid to patent a mini version of its melatonin tablet Circadin for children, after a successful challenge by Australian drug maker Generic Partners.
Trial in the battle of the buns has begun, with McDonald’s laying out a case for why its rival’s Big Jack burger infringes its trade mark, and Hungry Jack’s firing back that consumers could not confuse its flame-grilled meal with the iconic Big Mac.
A litigation funder has abandoned its case seeking to prevent counsel retained by the lead applicant in the settled Montara oil spill class action from providing independent legal advice.
Mining company Quantum Graphite has filed proceedings against accounting firm Grant Thornton over a 2020 report that caused the Australian Stock Exchange to suspend trading in the mining company’s securities for 14 months.
Developer JD Group has scored a partial win in its challenge to a damages award to a Melbourne couple over a “deliberately misleading” rendering of a $9.6 million apartment, with a judge saying the case showed the “inherent risk” in buying apartments off-the-plan.
US lingerie and beauty giant Victoria’s Secret has won undertakings from Chemist Warehouse to stop selling allegedly fake fragrance products until a trade mark suit against the pharmacy giant is decided.
Property data analytics firm CoreLogic is taking aim again at a lawsuit accusing it of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, months after a judge found the case was “defective and deficient”.
Santos has lost its challenge to a judge’s decision to revoke approval for its $4.7 billion offshore gas project because Tiwi Islanders were not properly consulted about the project.
A shareholder class action against a2 Milk has won its bid to include claims under New Zealand law over the dairy company’s disclosures to the New Zealand stock exchange.