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Ex-Bellamy’s director Jan Cameron drops capital gains tax challenge
Tax 2022-07-08 12:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Jan Cameron, founder of Kathmandu and former director of baby food company Bellamy’s, has abandoned her lawsuit alleging a Caribbean Islands-based trust didn’t owe capital gains tax on the 2018 sale of 2.5 million Bellamy’s shares.

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Fairfax to argue no ‘serious harm’ to synagogue head over ‘gossipy, mocking’ Age report
Defamation 2022-07-08 4:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Fairfax has foreshadowed a fight over whether former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond suffered ‘serious harm’ as a result of articles published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.

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‘What are solicitors doing writing press releases?’ Tolga Kumova trial judge asks
Trials 2022-07-07 4:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has questioned why solicitors representing Twitter personality Stock Swami published a media release about his “backstory” two days before trial in a defamation case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova.

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Readymix could be pulled into $300M case over ‘defective’ Lane Cove development
Construction 2022-07-07 4:19 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has indicated that he may allow concrete supplier Readymix to be drawn into a five-year-old dispute over alleged defects in the construction of Sydney’s billion-dollar Lane Cove tunnel.

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Biggin & Scott infringed copyright by copying source code, Full Court finds
Appeals 2022-07-07 4:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.

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Dow’s vapor-drift fighting herbicide patent not new, IP Australia finds in win for Nufarm 
Intellectual Property 2022-07-07 4:41 pm By Christine Caulfield

Nufarm Australia has successfully challenged a herbicide patent application by Dow Agrosciences’ successor on the grounds that the invention – aimed at limiting the worldwide problem of vapor drift – is neither new nor innovative.

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Tolga Kumova’s tweets ‘clearly apt to mislead’, judge says
Trials 2022-07-06 7:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge overseeing a defamation case brought by Tolga Kumova against Twitter personality Stock Swami has said tweets the mining investor published which allegedly spruiked shares in which he invested were “clearly apt to mislead”.

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Christian Porter reps Mick Gatto in High Court appeal of ABC victory
Appeals 2022-07-06 11:48 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Former attorney-general Christian Porter has joined the legal team of underworld figure Mick Gatto in his High Court bid to revive defamation claims against the ABC over an article he said accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.

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Zeller locked in trade mark battle with finfluencer Victoria Devine
Intellectual Property 2022-07-06 11:45 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Fintech startup Zeller Technologies has taken millennial financial adviser Victoria Devine to court after she succeeded in quashing its application to trade mark the word ‘Zeller’.

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Zurich rails against ‘exorbitant exercise’ of power in NZ apartment class action
Class Actions 2022-07-06 7:31 pm By Sam Matthews

Irish insurer Zurich Insurance has appealed a judge’s finding that a class action filed against it in the NSW Supreme Court over a defective New Zealand apartment block could go ahead, arguing the finding was the result of federal overreach.

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