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An appeals court has reinstated charges of unsatisfactory professional conduct against the principal of a leading employment law firm, after the lawyer called opposing counsel at Lander & Rogers "fundamentally dishonest".
A judge has panned evidence put on by Fuchs Lubricants in a patent dispute with Quaker Chemical as "woefully inadequate" and "absolutely garbage", partially shooting down the firm's attempt to block discovery of allegedly privileged documents.
A judge has put a proposal for a common fund order in a class action against sandalwood producer Quintis on hold as the court awaits judgment in an historic challenge to the power of courts to make common fund orders.
Senator Michaelia Cash's former media adviser says he notified his counterpart in the office of former federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan ahead of AFP raids on the Australian Workers' Union offices, and both alerted the media, a court heard Wednesday.
The law firm running a class action against sandalwood producer Quintis has pitched an unusual common fund order that subjects the firm and the funder bankrolling the case to ongoing monitoring by a cost referee.
Poppy processor TPI Enterprises has agreed to stop selling seed from high codeine poppy plants while it defends a lawsuit by rival Tasmanian Alkaloids alleging TPI infringed two of its innovation patents for high codeine-concentrated poppy.
Michaelia Cash's former chief-of-staff, Ben Davies, was the tipster who told the minister's ex-media adviser that federal police were planning to raid the headquarters of the Australian Workers' Union, a court was told Tuesday.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has slammed Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm's attempt to stay her defamation case against him without providing evidence that the alleged misandrist comments at the heart of the proceedings were spoken in Parliament.
A construction company has lost its appeal of a ruling that it illegally blocked CFMMEU officials from entering a work site to meet with union members, with a judge saying the union did not need to prove intent to obstruct to make its case for violations of the Fair Work Act.
Spotless Services is challenging a ruling that it owes redundancy to three workers employed at the Perth International Airport that were on fixed contracts.