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The Reject Shop has agreed to pay a penalty of $140,000 and will refund customers who purchased projectile toys that violate consumer protection laws.
Reckitt Benckiser has filed an appeal against GlaxoSmithKline, after a judge found the consumer goods giant misled consumers with claims that Nurofen was a more effective pain killer than its rival’s Panadol and ordered it to pay all of GlaxoSmithKline’s legal bill.
Long-time employees of Spotless Services who were fired after a subsidiary lost a cleaning contract with a Sunshine Coast shopping centre were owed redundancy pay, the Federal Court has found in a precedential ruling.
Lawyers running a class action against Murray Goulburn want access to evidence that the dairy cooperative's trust consulted with a QC about possible claims against its law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lodged a case in Federal Court against Rio Tinto, its former CEO and former CFO over allegedly misleading market statements it made about the reserves of a recent $4 billion acquisition, a controversy that has already landed the mining giant in hot water with regulators in the UK and US.
Australia's consumer regulator has taken Woolworths to court, saying it made deceptive claims to consumers about the biodegradability of its 'eco' line of picnic products.
A judge has called for a referee to look at Maurice Blackburn's fees for running a shareholder class action against QBE Insurance that settled late last year for $133 million.
Reckitt Benckiser has brought a claim against its familiar courtroom foe - consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble - over a television commercial and in-store promotion it says violates the consumer laws.
Patent lawyer and inventor Todd Martin will get two days in court to challenge the Australian Patent Office's decision to reject his innovation for failing the manner of manufacture test, one of two closely watched appeals challenging computer software patent rejections.
A former Norton Rose employment partner in litigation with the firm over his firing has lost his bid to move next week's scheduled mediation out of Sydney.