A law firm whose principal has been barred from practicing has been restrained from obstructing a Thomson Geer partner appointed to manage it.
A judge has called off a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the new serious harm element in Australia’s defamation laws is satisfied in a case brought by a weight lifting coach, citing an “unfortunate turn of events”.
German biotech Fresenius Kabi has struck back at Samsung Bioepis’s latest attack on the validity of its patents for a liquid formulation of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, accusing the Korean company of causing its sales to flag by infringing the patent.
The NSW gaming regulator has found Star Entertainment is unfit to hold a casino licence and has threatened disciplinary action after uncovering anti-money laundering breaches and “inherently deceptive” misconduct.
The Corner Hotel has lost another bid to cancel a rival club’s ‘jazz corner’ and ‘jazz corner hotel’ trade marks, with a judge finding the marks did not infringe the famed Richmond pub’s ‘corner’ trade marks.
A judge has approved an opt-out notice in a class action against retirement home provider Aveo Group that advises of a proposed application for a controversial funding order that would put a lien on some group members homes.
An appeals court has tossed an appeal in litigation between members of the embattled Binetter family, founders of Nudie Juice, over a $1 million loan given by Holocaust survivor Ida Wolff to her nephew Ronald Binetter.
A judge has ordered Scenic Cruises to pay just over $10 million to travellers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus from city to city.
Law firms Slater & Gordon and Phi Finney McDonald are seeking a 22 per cent cut of any recovery in a consolidated shareholder class action against food company Noumi and its auditor Deloitte over $590 million in accounting irregularities.
A former special forces commander has sued the Australian Broadcasting Corporation over two stories which he claims implied that he “callously killed” a prisoner and committed war crimes while in Afghanistan in 2012.