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Taronga Zoo faces court in trade mark battle
Intellectual Property 2018-03-05 1:10 pm By Christine Caulfield

Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo will bare its teeth in court Tuesday for the first hearing in its trade mark battle against the creators of Sydney Zoo, a wildlife reserve in Darling Harbour.

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Game-changing ruling finds Spotless workers owed redundancy
Employment 2018-03-02 9:01 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Ex-Norton Rose partner can’t move mediation out of Sydney
Employment 2018-03-01 7:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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AstraZeneca resolves Crestor patent spat with Generic Health
Intellectual Property 2018-03-01 7:23 pm By Christine Caulfield

Pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Generic Health have laid down their swords in a long-running patent dispute over AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug Crestor, two-and-a-half years after the High Court of Australia found the patent obvious and invalid.

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Reckitt Benckiser to feel pain of GSK’s costs in Nurofen case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-02-28 3:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

Reckitt Benckiser has been ordered to pay all of GlaxoSmithKline’s legal bill after a judge found the drug giant misled consumers with claims that Nurofen was a more effective pain killer than its rival’s Panadol.

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Drink, drugs & a dodgy investigation can’t save a coal miner’s job
Employment 2018-02-28 9:28 am By Christine Caulfield

Alcohol, anti-depressants and the common use of bad language at the Illawarra coal mine did not excuse a sacked miner’s threatening and expletive-laced phone calls to colleagues, the full Fair Work Commission has found.

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Slater & Gordon auditor denies blame for investors’ loss
Securities 2018-02-27 7:59 pm By Christine Caulfield

Auditing firm Pitcher Partners has filed its defence in a class action accusing it of wrongly signing off on Slater & Gordon’s financial reports, denying responsibility for alleged material misstatements that investors say they relied on to their detriment.

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Bank of Queensland settles class action over Sherwin scam
Securities 2018-02-27 9:13 am By Christine Caulfield

The Bank of Queensland has reached a settlement close to trial in a class action brought by investors in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme masterminded by jailed scammer Bradley Sherwin.  

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Judge slams CFMEU’s ‘deplorable record’ of law breaking
Employment 2018-02-26 8:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

The CFMEU has a “deplorable record” of breaking industrial legislation, a Federal Court judge said Monday as it slapped the union and a Victorian delegate with a $105,000 fine for enforcing a closed union construction site in Melbourne.

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Unions can’t ground review of airport workers’ split shifts
Employment 2018-02-23 8:53 pm By Christine Caulfield

In a win for aviation services company Aerocare, a court on Friday ruled the company’s bid for review of its controversial split-shift rosters was not an abuse of process as two unions had argued.

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