Billionaire Clive Palmer has succeeded in knocking a second judge off a case brought against him by the liquidators of failed Queensland Nickel, after arguing that a previous ruling disqualified him.
Australian coffee maker Vittoria Food & Beverage has won another challenge to a patent for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of Mondelez International.
UGL knew by April 2014 that there were delays with the Ichthys LNG project, but failed to make required disclosures to shareholders, according to an amended pleading in a shareholder class action against the engineering company.
An appeals court has rejected the funder’s commission and legal fees stemming from a $64 million settlement in litigation over the failure of Banksia Securities, but granted approval to the settlement.
The presence of a seconded Ashurst lawyer at a Fair Work Commission hearing in an unfair dismissal case against Qantas did not violate an order denying the airline’s request to hire the firm to represent it in the case, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Generic drug maker Alphapharm has lost another bid for documents from Sanofi-Aventis in advance of a hearing on Sanofi’s interlocutory application seeking to block the generic drug maker from listing its injector pen on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
The first class action is expected to be filed on behalf of property owners whose buildings are covered with highly combustible polyethylene core cladding.
A leading class action lawyer has defeated an attempt by the Law Society of NSW to revive professional misconduct proceedings against him.
Wyeth must pay a group of generic drug companies for the harm they suffered after the drug maker won interlocutory injunctions blocking their plans to market an extended release generic version of anti-depressant Effexor, in a ruling likely to have a chilling effect on interlocutory injunction grants in pharmaceutical patent cases.
Online retailer Kogan.com said Monday it’s facing an investigation by the ACCC into one of its promotions.