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Star Entertainment secures lifeline with $53M sale of Queen’s Wharf stake
Construction 2025-03-07 10:38 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Star Entertainment has reached an agreement with Hong Kong-based investors Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium on the $53 million buyout of its stake in the Queen’s Wharf entertainment project in Brisbane. 

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Ex-Super Retail lawyer wants lid lifted on settlement for public defence
Employment 2025-03-07 6:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer wants to lift a suppression order covering details of a settlement she says was reached after she was dismissed from the company.

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Telstra fined $626,000 for breaching spam laws
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-03-06 4:27 pm By Andy Sidler

Telstra has been hit with a $626,00 penalty for sending over 10 million text messages that required customers to log in before unsubscribing. 

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Star’s former CEO accused of ‘false account’ in money laundering trial
Trials 2025-03-05 11:19 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Facing a grilling at trial in ASIC’s money laundering case, Star’s former boss has been accused of giving a false account of a conversation he had with the casino operator’s head of due diligence.

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Colloquial use not enough to save Macquarie’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-03-05 11:12 pm By Andy Sidler

A delegate has ordered the removal of Macquarie’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark, finding no evidence of use in the course of trade despite the moniker being widely used to refer to the bank colloquially.

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Carnival settlement a ‘victory’ in class action over bad weather, judge says
Class Actions 2025-03-03 11:33 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The judge who approved a $2.4 million settlement in a class action against Carnival said it should be regarded as a victory that cruise passengers got anything, when the case was pleaded at an “unsustainably high level”.

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Munich Re can bring fresh claims in $700M case against AMP
Insurance 2025-02-27 3:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Munich Reinsurance has been given the OK to bring additional claims in its $696 million lawsuit, which accuses AMP of misleading or deceptive conduct over a quota share agreement.

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Lundbeck, Sandoz end long-running Lexapro patent war
Intellectual Property 2025-02-27 11:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

Pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck has resolved its battle with Novartis unit Sandoz over top-selling drug Lexapro, a battle that has raged for years and across multiple courts.

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Giles George has good case for lien over costs in barrister’s case: judge
Defamation 2025-02-27 2:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Defamation boutique Giles George has a “good arguable case” that it has a solicitor’s lien over costs payable by Nine in a defamation case by barrister Gina Edwards over social media cavoodle Oscar. 

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Law firm might drop iPhone class action against Apple, court told
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-02-26 5:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A law firm that lodged a class action against Apple over “throttled” iPhones might discontinue the case without having served the US tech giant. 

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