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Ex-CFO hit with market manipulation charges
White Collar 2020-06-11 3:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The former chief financial officer of delisted traditional therapy clinic company Traditional Therapy Clinics has been charged with multiple counts of market manipulation and fraud for engaging in share transactions designed to create an artificial price for the company’s share price.

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Ozcare worker says mandatory flu vaccines discriminate against her
Coronavirus 2020-06-11 2:18 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

An employee from not-for-profit aged care health provider Ozcare who claims the company discriminated against her through its mandatory flu vaccine policies has had her case thrown out of the Fair Work Commission.

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Insurer may get dragged into pelvic mesh class action
AJB Stevens 2020-06-11 12:46 pm By Alison Eveleigh Sydney

A class action brought against three medical device manufacturers and a disgraced former doctor on behalf of thousands of women who claim to have suffered lifelong complications from pelvic mesh implants is seeking to add the doctor’s medical insurance company to the proceedings.

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Employsure files lawsuit seeking docs ahead of ACCC trial
ACCC 2020-06-11 12:10 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Employsure has made an eleventh hour courtroom bid to access documents held by the Fair Work Ombudsman, just days before trial is due to commence in ACCC proceedings alleging the workplace relations company engaged in unconscionable conduct towards small business clients.

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Bega melts Saputo bid to trade mark cheese cartoon figure
Bega 2020-06-11 10:57 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Cheese maker Saputo’s proposed trade mark for an adorable cheese cartoon figure is substantially identical to Bega’s intellectual property for a ‘smiling anthropomorphised’ cheese biped and cannot be trade marked, a delegate of the trade marks office has found.

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Bayer’s parasite treatment patent bites the dust after challenge by Abbey
Agriculture 2020-06-10 9:22 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Sydney

Animal health company Abbey Laboratories has successfully challenged an application by rival Bayer Australia for a patent covering a treatment for biting lice.

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Banned financial advisor Sam Henderson charged over master’s degree claims
Financial Services 2020-06-10 9:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

Former celebrity advisor Sam Henderson, who was slapped with a three-year financial services ban last year after his appearance at the banking royal commission, has been charged with multiple dishonesty offences.

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Goodman Fielder gets green light to reopen $1.25M GrainCorp case
Clayton Utz 2020-06-10 6:31 pm By Alison Eveleigh Sydney

A court has given Goodman Fielder the green light to reopen its breach of contract case against GrainCorp to submit further evidence on potential damages.

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Royal commission docs can be used in HarperCollins deep sleep defamation case
Anais d'Arville 2020-06-10 3:47 pm By Alison Eveleigh Sydney

A judge has given the green light for HarperCollins to use several documents from a royal commission in its defence of defamation proceedings brought against it by two psychiatrists at the centre of the deep sleep therapy scandal that rocked the medical world in the 1960s and 70s.

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High Court won’t hear Melco’s challenge to doc production order in Crown inquiry
Clayton Utz 2020-06-10 2:48 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Hong Kong-based casino group Melco Resorts has lost an application for special leave to the High Court to weigh in on a ruling that a NSW public inquiry into James Packer’s Crown Resorts had the power of a royal commission and could order privileged documents to be handed over.

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