US-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals has secured a temporary injunction that bans generic drug maker Juno Pharmaceuticals from importing or selling its cheap version of breakthrough cancer drug Velcade in Australia.
Correspondence to a law firm revealing a client’s identity was covered by legal professional privilege because the firm’s advice was contingent on the client providing his name, a court has ruled.
A judge has refused a bid by two Australian companies to shut down a long-running wrongful death case in the US brought by the families of 15 people killed in an air crash near the Lockhart River in North Queensland in May 2005.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been hit with union action to scrap its enterprise bargaining agreement and put it on the hook for $1 billion in unpaid wages.
Companies breaching the Australian Consumer Law will be hit with higher fines after the Federal Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that aligns the maximum penalties with fines for competition law violations.
Hotel booking site Trivago has been hit with legal action by the consumer regulator alleging the company’s price advertisements were misleading.
The competition regulator has cleared JCDecaux Australia’s multibillion merger with APN Outdoor Group, while oOh!media’s $570 million tie-up with AdShel has also been given the nod.
The bitter dispute between Gina Rinehart and two of her children over billions of dollars in iron ore mining assets may come down to how the High Court interprets a single word in an arbitration clause of agreements signed by the warring family members.
A jury has found the former managing director of South Australian mining exploration company Golden Fields Resources guilty of two counts of insider trading, the corporate regulator said Tuesday.
Plastic banknote company Securency has been ordered to pay more than $64 million after it tricked its agent in Nigeria into signing away his commission in what the Federal Court called a “shabby fraud”.