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Samsung Bioepis sues again to invalidate Humira biosimilar
Intellectual Property 2022-06-30 2:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Korean drug company Samsung Bioepis has filed a second lawsuit seeking to invalidate German drug company Fresenius Kadi’s patent for a biosimilar of blockbuster arthritis drug Humira.

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Court finds sessional academic lecturer an employee, not a contractor
Employment 2022-06-30 5:14 pm By Cindy Cameronne

In its first decision applying a landmark High Court judgment redefining the test for when a worker is employed, the Federal Court has found a sessional lecturer for a higher education institution was an employee.

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Stock Swami flies to Sydney for cross on ‘deficient’ discovery in Kumova trial
Trials 2022-06-29 1:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumova’s defamation case, saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.

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‘You get him in the witness box’: Kumova trial on hold after judge questions Stock Swami’s discovery
Defamation 2022-06-28 9:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.

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New Zealand should regulate class actions, allow CFOs: report
Policy and Regulation 2022-06-28 12:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The New Zealand law commission has called on the government to implement a class action regime that would allow funders to seek the equivalent of a common fund order to “improve access to justice and efficiency in litigation”.

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Nuix ex-CEO not entitled to ‘special treatment’, trial judge told
Securities 2022-06-27 6:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The former boss of embattled tech company Nuix is asking for “special treatment” by arguing he is owed $183 million in options under a 2008 agreement, a judge has heard on the first day of trial in the ex-CEO’s case.

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Kumova extolled mining company in tweets then sold $24M in shares, defamation trial told
Defamation 2022-06-24 6:17 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova sold $24 million worth of shares in mining company after publishing positive social media posts about its prospects, a court has heard in a defamation trial over allegations he engaged in insider trading and pumping and dumping. 

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Confidentiality no ‘excuse’ for Apple refusing to hand over docs in patent dispute, court told
Intellectual Property 2022-06-24 5:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An Australian non-practicing entity alleging Apple’s Touch ID and Face ID technology infringes its patents has accused the Silicon Valley company of refusing to comply with court orders to hand over documents.

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Law firm scolded by judge for ‘highly unsatisfactory’ social media post in Kumova trial
Trials 2022-06-23 9:53 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has pulled up a law firm over a tweet it published about defamation proceedings brought by investor Tolga Kumova, telling a barrister during the trial Thursday to counsel his instructing solicitors about the “highly unsatisfactory” social media post.

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Investor Tolga Kumova admits to $4.8B valuation error in defamation row
Defamation 2022-06-23 1:44 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova has admitted to publishing an inaccurate tweet about the value of a mineral resource owned by a zinc producer of which he was a director, agreeing at trial in his defamation case that he was off by $4.8 billion.

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