Journalist Tegan George will add sex discrimination claims against Network Ten to her lawsuit that alleges harassment and bullying by political journalist Peter van Onselen.
The will of “Australia’s worst landlord” — Melbourne businessman Frank Cassar — was forged in a conspiracy by his widow, daughter and son who feared losing his multimillion dollar business empire after his death, a court has found.
ASIC has asked a Federal Court registrar who previously worked at Herbert Smith Freehills to step down from overseeing remaining costs disputes in its failed case against former Tennis Australia president Steven Healy, who is represented by the Big Six firm.
The Full Court has upheld two judgments that shortened patent term extensions granted to Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Ono Pharmaceuticals, finding the extension regime cannot be construed as achieving a “commercial outcome for a patentee”.
A judge has slammed Novartis for putting forward four “overlapping” experts in a dispute with Pharmacor over patents for its MS drug Gilenya and thrown three of those experts out of an upcoming joint conferral, known as a “hot tub”.
American fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers has settled a trade mark dispute with a Queensland fast food business that operates “ghost kitchens” under the name In & Out Aussie Burgers.
Calling it the “elephant in the room”, a judge overseeing a class action against Tyro over a major EFTPOS outage last year has said a dispute over who is eligible to join the case needs to be hashed out before retailers are notified of the proceedings.
The High Court has found that three asset-based lenders behaved unconscionably when they enforced thir rights under a $1.2 million loan made to a vulnerable consumer secured by a mortgage over his properties.
Japan’s Uniden has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit by Australia’s only CB radio manufacturer, which alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communications giant of two new products amounts to infringement of its design patent.
Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney has sought a temporary stay of ASIC’s case accusing him of being in contempt of court for allegedly breaching a 20-year ban on selling financial products.