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Corner Hotel wins bid for McDonald’s hipster cafe financials
McDonald's must hand over financial records for its Corner Cafe as the trade mark battle launched by Melbourne's Corner Hotel heads to mediation.
Geoffrey Rush to argue accuser ‘distressed’ by break-up
Geoffrey Rush's legal team plans to question his King Lear co-star over a break-up with her partner, arguing the actress at the centre of a defamation case might have been distressed by the relationship split, not by any allegedly inappropriate behaviour by the Oscar-winning actor.
Boral subsidiary fined $30,000 for threatening to sack workforce
A subsidiary of building materials giant Boral was fined $30,000 Wednesday after threatening to sack its entire workforce for voting down proposed changes to an enterprise agreement to comply with the building watchdog's code.
Cargill wins bid to call King & Wood Mallesons solicitor as a witness
A judge has granted Cargill Australia's request to call a King & Wood Mallesons solicitor that represented Viterra as a witness in the epic trial over the $420 million sale of Viterra's Joe White business to Cargill in 2013.
Slater & Gordon targets banks, wealth managers in class action campaign
Law firm Slater and Gordon will launch a series of class actions alleging the big banks and wealth managers ripped off more than $1 billion from members of their superannuation funds.
Deloitte partners don’t have access to Hastie files, court told
Accounting giant Deloitte is digging in for a fight over a court order to produce documents to a shareholder class over the firm's auditing of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group, saying partners forced to hand over the files don't have access to them.
Woolworths faces $100M shareholder class action over profit guidance
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been hit with a class action on behalf of investors who allegedly suffered losses when the company revised its sales and profit guidance and revealed it had been using the wrong pricing competitiveness and stock availability metrics.
Mortgage firm can’t shut down derivative suit over Macquarie Bank sale
Mortgage aggregator Connective Group has lost an appeal of a ruling that gave the greenlight to a shareholder's derivative lawsuit against company directors and Macquarie Bank over the sale of 25 percent of the business to the bank.
Australia, Canada settle patent fight over commemorative coins
An international IP dispute between the Royal Australian Mint and its Canadian counterpart over a patent for printed commemorative coins has settled, three months after Australia revealed its "knockout claim" in the case.
Class action funders’ $92M windfall: the last of the big paydays?
The $92 million payout to two funders that financed the recently settled S&P Global class actions shows the need for continued scrutiny of litigation funding agreements, experts say, but whether it is a sign of windfalls to come or is a ghost of commission's past is another question.