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One Key Workforce liquidators vie for unpaid wages in union spat
Ashurst 2018-10-04 3:13 pm By Miklos Bolza

Liquidators for failed labour hire business One Key Workforce are disputing a claim by the CFMMEU for wages owed to employees, saying the money should be given to them while they wind up the company.

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Judge faces possible DQ bid by fired Norton Rose partner
Employment 2018-10-04 2:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

A former employment partner at Norton Rose Fulbright may ask a Federal Court judge to recuse himself from a long-running dispute with the law firm, saying the judge’s previous comments had triggered a “reasonable apprehension” of bias.

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Hytera asks to keep China’s state secrets from Motorola in IP war
Herbert Smith Freehills 2018-10-04 12:56 pm By Christine Caulfield

Hytera Communications wants the Federal Court to block Motorola from accessing evidence in their patent war covered by Chinese laws prohibiting disclosure of state secrets or compromising the country’s cybersecurity.

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Settlement offer to bushfire class members misleading, judge finds
Class Actions 2018-10-03 10:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A settlement offer promising swift payment that was sent to class members in a lawsuit against Powercor Australia over the 2018 St Patrick’s Day bushfires in Victoria was misleading, a judge has found.

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Gold Coast financial adviser loses defamation case over online comments
Defamation 2018-10-03 4:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Gold Coast-based derivatives trading firm has lost a defamation case against an online investment forum over critical comments warning potential investors against using the company.

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Fortescue unit can eyeball Squire Patton Boggs emails in power contract dispute
Contracts 2018-10-03 3:51 pm By Miklos Bolza

A unit of Fortescue Metals Group has won its bid for emails between Squire Patton Boggs  and a unit of electricity provider TransAlta Energy relating to a disputed power purchase agreement, saying privilege was waived when the emails were forwarded to a third party.

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Judge fines The Australian $155,000 for contempt over Setka article
Construction 2018-10-02 9:26 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian has been hit with a $155,000 fine for publishing an article referring to the criminal convictions of CFMMEU official John Setka despite repeated warnings by prosecutors about prejudicing their blackmail case against the union boss.

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‘I just don’t get it’: judge questions Sandoz cross claim in Lexapro patent case
Clayton Utz 2018-10-02 9:25 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Federal Court judge has expressed her disbelief at a cross claim by generic drug maker Sandoz against Danish multinational H Lundbeck, as the court begins to weigh arguments over damages owed to Lundbeck in the long-running patent case over its blockbuster anti-depressant Lexapro.

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Take-Two wins injunction against another Grand Theft Auto gamer
Bird & Bird 2018-10-02 3:19 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Take-Two interactive has won an injunction blocking a Grand Theft Auto gamer from distributing software that allows users to access restricted features of the popular game, a month after reaching a settlement with a gamer in a separate copyright case.

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Telstra customers get $9.3M back for misleading billing practices
Australian Government Solicitor 2018-09-28 11:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Telstra customers that were billed for mobile phone apps they unwittingly bought have been refunded $9.3 million, several months after the company was hit with a $10 million penalty for the misleading conduct.

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