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Pasta distributor Conga Foods is challenging a ruling that dashed its bid to register its 'La Famiglia Rana' trade mark in Australia.
The judge overseeing sports presenter Erin Molan's defamation case against the Daily Mail won't force Molan to be questioned ahead of trail about a segment on Nine's The Footy Show in which she laughed at an off-colour joke, saying the publisher was "fishing".
Accounting firm Findex Australia has lost a bid for the High Court to hear its case over a restraint provision against a former financial advisor found to have been unenforcable.
Buffet dining pioneer Sizzler, which closed its last Australian restaurants in November, has settled a trade mark dispute with Brisbane-based chain Burger Urge over a chicken burger known as "the Sizzle".
Maurice Blackburn has brought a second class action against two NAB units over $6.3 billion in super funds, after the law firm's first attempt was shut down by a state court as invalid.
The corporate cop has launched action against banking giant Westpac for allegedly selling worthless add-on credit card insurance to unwitting customers, the first of what could be a series of cases against banks in the wake of a remediation program that has returned $250 million to hundreds of thousands of account holders with 11 major lenders.
Star Entertainment can continue its case against a wealthy junket gambler who dishonoured a cheque after losing $43 million in one week at the Baccarat table at Star's Gold Coast casino.
In observance of the Easter holiday, Lawyerly will be closed on Friday, April 2 and Monday, April 5. We will resume regular daily publishing on Tuesday, April 6.
The "hypocrisy" of ABC journalist Louise Milligan in criticising the host of Media Watch for not seeking comment before a broadcast last month has aggravated the damage caused by her defamatory article, the former Attorney-General and accused rapist has told a court.
Courts have power to order oral discovery of potential witnesses ahead of trial, according to the judge overseeing two 7-Eleven class actions by franchisees, but the cases against the convenience store giant were not the occasion to exercise the power, he said.