International law firm Dentons has lured the principal of IPH Limited, which owns leading intellectual property firms including Griffith Hack and Spruson & Ferguson, for its Australasian patents team.
A court has heard that casino giants Crown and Star are likely to reach agreement with AUSTRAC as to liability in proceedings alleging “widespread and serious non-compliance” with anti-money and counter terrorism laundering laws.
An anti-lockdown protester has lost her appeal of a decision dismissing her legal challenge to Victoria’s stay-at-home orders, with an appeals court finding the reduction in risk to public health “outweighed” impacts on freedom of speech.
A landmark Federal Court class action against private health insurer Medibank will be a test case for when privacy claims can sidestep the regulatory path, and whether group members can prove they suffered loss from exposure of their data.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann was reasonably identifiable as Brittany Higgins’ alleged rapist in an interview aired on Ten’s The Project and articles published by News Corp Australia, according to court documents in defamation cases against the media companies.
Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel and three other Palmer-related entities have been ordered to pay $44.5 million (US$30.8 million) to litigation funder Vannin Capital for defaulting on a loan for a private jet.
Mining investor Tolga Kumova has won an order banning the man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami from publishing allegations concerning the his past actions after a judge found he was defamed by tweets accusing him of insider trading.
Melbourne law firm KHQ Lawyers has been sued for a former junior lawyer who alleges the firm compiled a “haphazard collection” of allegations as pretense to fire her after she complained about workplace bullying.
Uber wants to trim a class action by taxi and hire drivers in four states over the introduction of UberX, saying the case lacks coherence.
Treasury Wine Estates has resolved proceedings against ‘wine in a can’ maker Barokes alleging the Melbourne-based company’s patents are invalid and that it made “unjustified threats” against the Penfolds maker.