A firm owned by solicitor Mark Elliot has launched an appeal challenging costs orders made against it in a stayed class action against winemaker Treasury Wine Estates.
Landowners above the Sydney Metro underground tunnel will be allowed to claim compensation before construction is complete, with a court also preparing to consider potential compensation for any reduced development potential.
Three shareholder class actions against RCR Tomlinson have been allowed to continued, setting up a class action beauty contest over who will lead the litigation against the failed engineering company.
Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has successfully defended the patent for its sedative drug Precedex against a validity challenge, a big win for the drug maker after a US court found last year that its patents for a ready-to-use version of the drug were invalid for obviousness.
ANZ Bank has secured a stay of the corporate cop’s civil penalties proceeding over disclosures related to its $2.5 billion equity capital raising while it fights criminal cartel charges related to the controversial share placement.
Rival law firms Phi Finney McDonald and Maurice Blackburn have offered to consolidate their competing shareholder class actions against BHP after prompting by the Full Federal Court, which said Friday it approved of the plan.
A judge has allowed a company associated with leading tyre retailer Bob Jane T-Mart to register three trade marks for its brand of Monster alloy wheels, dismissing claims from US energy drink giant Monster Energy that allowing the registration would lead to confusion.
An appeals court has tossed a challenge to the dismissal of an investor class action against the Public Trustee of Queensland over a failure to predict the 2008 collapse of Gold Coast-based finance group Octaviar, finding that the class had run a case based on allegations outside of its claims.
Lawyers for Radio Rentals are trying to take back hundreds of potentially privileged documents in a consumer class action over the company’s ‘Rent, Try, $1 Buy’ program, after they were accidentally disclosed as a result of an IT redaction error.
A developer of what’s now being called the “Infamous Mod” for video game Grand Theft Auto, which gives players extra powers, is confident he can defend the copyright case brought against him by Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rockstar Games.