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Glencore in-house counsel wins access to ‘highly confidential’ deal docs, again
Agriculture 2018-12-06 10:39 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The judge overseeing a fraudulent concealment trial over Cargill’s $420 million purchase of the Joe White malt business has reaffirmed an earlier ruling allowing an in-house counsel at Glencore to access documents related to the possible sale of Cargill’s malting business.

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Ex-Murray Goulburn head to pay $200k in ACCC milk price case
Agriculture 2018-12-06 3:40 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The former managing director of Murray Goulburn will be hit with a $200,000 penalty for being knowingly concerned in false representations made by the dairy producer to farmers about the farmgate milk prices it would pay during the 2015-16 milk season.

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Ex-RBA official Christian Boillot jailed for 2.5 years over bribery scandal
Financial Services 2018-12-06 2:46 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Former Reserve Bank of Australia official Christian Boillot was sentenced Thursday to a two and a half years’ suspended jail term over his role in a conspiracy to bribe foreign officials to win banknote business.

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Ramsay Health Care’s Nuramel trade mark beats off challenge
Consumer Goods 2018-12-06 1:49 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Ramsay Health Care has defeated a challenge to its Nuramel trade mark for a brand of infant formula, with IP Australia saying while the mark was an exact anagram of Biofarma’s Munarel, it wasn’t deceptively similar.

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ASIC filing puts spotlight on ANZ treasurer in $2.5B capital raising case
Allens 2018-12-05 10:50 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

ANZ treasurer Rick Moscati was at the centre of a flurry of phone calls and meetings with underwriters and other bank executives on the day the underwriters agreed to pick up a $791 million shortfall in a $2.5 billion capital raising, an agreement which has led to groundbreaking cases by two regulators, according to a new court document.

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As AMP royal commission witness retires, class action parade begins
Class Actions 2018-12-05 10:35 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

AMP’s advice executive Jack Regan, the witness who aired the firm’s fees-for-no-service dirty laundry at the Royal Commission, has retired, a day before five law firms compete to lead a class action over the scandal.

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Sacked HWL lawyer’s defence of client criticisms an ‘untenable stretch,’ court hears
Employment 2018-12-05 10:09 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Former HWL Ebsworth special counsel Dr Gary Rumble’s insistence that he believed he had carte blanche to criticise one of the law firm’s clients is an “untenable stretch,” the Federal Court heard Wednesday.

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ACCC takes internet provider Activ8me to court for false advertising
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-12-05 1:42 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Internet provider Activ8me is in hot water with the consumer regulator for a second time this year, facing court action over allegedly false and misleading claims about the cost, speed and data limits of its internet packages.

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B. Braun launches appeal in IV catheter patent case
David Shavin 2018-12-05 12:23 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Medical device maker B. Braun Melsungen is appealing a ruling that invalidated its intravenous catheter patents and dismissed allegations of infringement against rival Becton Dickinson.

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Trade mark reputation not a factor in deceptively similar cases: Full Court
Agriculture 2018-12-04 8:43 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A judge applied the “wrong test” when he considered the reputation of a trade mark in an infringement case alleging the marks of rival meat processors were deceptively similar, a Full Federal Court has found.

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