Geoff O’Shea

A class action against a director of defunct financial services firm Hodgson Faraday is headed to the High Court after seven years of litigation, with the director appealing findings that he was involved in misleading South Korean investors.

The Full Federal Court has rejected an Australian inventor’s appeal of a ruling that found three manufacturers of essential oil products did not infringe his patent because the oil was a “staple commercial product”.

Slater and Gordon has won a bid to strike out parts of a cross-claim seeking injury compensation for alleged bullying at the law firm brought by a solicitor accused of stealing clients after jumping ship.