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HWL Ebsworth found negligent in $130M case over property development
Conor Bannan 2023-02-17 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

HWL Ebsworth has been found negligent in advising on a joint venture contract for an ambitious Sydney-based land development, which allegedly lost the law firm’s former client $130 million. 

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High Court to hear appeal over liability for developer’s source code theft
Appeals 2023-02-17 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court will hear an appeal over whether real estate agent Biggin & Scott should be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer.

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High Court won’t hear HarperCollins’ deep sleep defamation appeal
Anais d'Arville 2023-02-17 11:02 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court has declined HarperCollins’ special leave application seeking to appeal a decision that revived a psychiatrist’s defamation case over a book about the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s.

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Law firm’s bid for Coles, Woolworths worker details could cause chaos, court told
Adero Law 2023-02-17 4:10 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A law firm running underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths has sought orders forcing them to hand over contact details for key workers in the Fair Work Ombudsman’s parallel cases, which the supermarket giants lashed as likely to “cause chaos” in the proceedings.

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Macquarie advisers stripped of $330,000 win as 5-year-old case sent back
Arthur Moses 2023-02-17 4:56 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Dozens of Macquarie advisers who previously won a $330,000 payday against the bank have been ordered back to court for a rehearing of their long-running case over employment entitlements.

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ACCC accuses Swift Networks of fixing prices for internet at Rio Tinto mines
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-02-17 11:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

Technology company Swift Networks has been taken to court for alleged bid rigging and price fixing in the tender process for IT and communications equipment supply to five Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals mining sites in WA’s Pilbara region.

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Monique Ryan, chief of staff continue settlement talks in employment dispute
Angel Aleksov 2023-02-17 12:41 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Independent MP Monique Ryan’s chief of staff Sally Rugg will extend mediation talks with the politician and the Commonwealth, with the parties optimistic they can resolve Rugg’s Fair Work lawsuit out of court.

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In first beauty parade of its kind, law firms compete to manage $300M J&J settlement
Alec Leopold 2023-02-16 10:43 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Sixteen law firms and accounting firms have thrown their hat in the ring to administer a $300 million settlement in two class actions against Johnson & Johnson over pelvic mesh devices that injured thousands of women.

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J&J class action settlement ‘massively’ short of what pelvic mesh victims owed, court told
Alec Leopold 2023-02-16 10:04 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A contradictor appointed in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has blasted a $300 million settlement, calling it “massively” short of what is owed to group members, after a judge preliminarily found the sum was not fair and reasonable.

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Medibank foreshadows stay bid as second class action looms
Baker McKenzie 2023-02-16 1:19 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Australia’s largest private health insurer Medibank has flagged an application to stay a landmark data breach class action filed in the Federal Court, as another law firm mulls a class action over the massive breach.

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