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The High Court has settled a 16-year battle between the federal government and Sanofi over alleged excess subsidies it paid after a judge blocked the release of a generic version of blood thinner Plavix, saying its job was not to “resurrect” a dead case.
The founders of news website Mamamia have secured access to their client file from a former HWL Ebsworth partner, who is accused of professional negligence in his handling of a dispute with the landlord of the couple's $16 million Bellevue Hill mansion.
A Sydney lawyer has been ordered to pay the costs of a property dispute after a judge found his conduct meant the case was “doomed to fail” and caused the costs of the litigation to be wasted.
A judge has ordered Meta to pay a $20 million penalty for misleading consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private, when in fact it was being collected for commercial use.
Facebook has agreed to pay a $20 million penalty for misleading consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private, when in fact it was being collected for commercial use.
Boral has won its bid to shield from shareholders in a class action three investigative reports, including one by accounting giant EY, concerning financial irregularities in the construction company's North America windows business.
The Full Federal Court has found that a landmark NSW Court of Appeal decision barring group members from being notified of future class closure orders at settlement was "plainly wrong" and that the court has the power to make the orders.
Judgments shooting down a class closure order and nixing notice of a possible class closure order were "plainly wrong" and "infected" by faulty reasoning, the Full Federal Court has heard.
A group of banks that failed to prove steel giant Arrium falsified representations on loan drawdown notices ahead of its $2.8 billion collapse have been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a court found they rejected $10 million settlement offers three days into the trial.
Herbert Smith Freehills this week escaped a cross-claim that its advice made it liable for the alleged losses of Arrium's lenders, but the judge who tossed the claim along with the banks' cases expressed doubts about one of the law firm's key arguments, a warning to other firms caught up in litigation as so-called concurrent wrongdoers.