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A judge has expressed doubt about the need for expert evidence in class actions against McDonald's and KFC over their alleged failure to give workers rest breaks, saying “I imagine if you’re a worker, you’d like a rest”.
Red Bull has won its opposition to a Chinese beverage manufacturer’s bid to register 'SeaBull' as a trade mark for non-alocoholic drinks, with an IP Australia delegate finding the mark is deceptively similar to Red Bull's.
A new statutory tort targeting serious invasions of privacy came into effect on Tuesday, raising new risks for companies, including publishers.
A judge has sent to the Full Federal Court Medibank’s fight to shield Deloitte reports into a data breach, raising concerns about how evidence from a solicitor and the health insurer's inhouse lawyer was previously treated.
A judge has dismissed a class action applicant’s claim that he was underpaid as a University of Sydney postgraduate student, but left for another day the question of whether the court should also make orders binding group members.
The boss of defunct stockbroking firm BBY has been hit with criminal charges over the acquisition of $192 million shares in mining company Aquila Resources.
A magistrate has cleared a Tasmanian jumping castle operator of criminal wrongdoing for her alleged role in a tragedy that killed six children in 2021, but a related class action against her and the state government will continue.
In a blow for the plaintiffs in a long-running class action over the government's live exports ban, a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place.