The Full Federal Court will hear arguments next week in an appeal by the ACCC over an alleged laundry detergent cartel, the first so-called hub and spoke case brought by the competition regulator.
Chicken processor Inghams has won an appeal of a ruling that put it on the hook for the late-night assault of a shift worker in the car park of the company’s poultry plant in Murarrie, Queensland.
The Full Federal Court expressed doubts Tuesday about an “unusual” and “heavy handed” order restraining lawyers leading the stayed class actions against GetSwift from advising their clients about whether to opt out of the prevailing action.
A Perth businessman has filed an appeal of a judge’s ruling that an email forwarded by a Gadens lawyer from ASIC alerting him that he had been disqualified from serving as a director constituted proper notification.
Aristocrat Technologies is pushing on with its bid for four innovation gaming patents, after a delegate for IP Australia revoked the patents because they amounted to nothing more than ‘games and game rules’.
The naming of Squire Patton Boggs as a concurrent wrongdoer in GetSwiftâs defence puts the law firm in an âimpossible position of conflict of interestâ if it wins a challenge to an order staying its class action against the company, the Full Federal Court has been told ahead of a highly anticipated appeal hearing that promises to pull no punches.
A unit of Yazaki Corp is seeking High Court approval to file an appeal after the Full Federal Court handed down a record $46 million penalty against the car parts maker for colluding with a competitor on prices for wire harnesses supplied to Toyota.
The Federal Court has dismissed an application by tax lawyer Michael Binetter and his wife Suzanne Binetter to dip into over $3 million in frozen assets to fund a case over an alleged $120 million international tax evasion scheme.
A three-day hearing starts Wednesday in a challenge by marketing technology startup Rokt to an IP Australia decision that rejected its patent application, a closely-watched case that could move the dial on the patentability of software.
Industrial filter manufacturer Vokes has lost its fight to correct a 17-year-old error that removed it as the registered owner of six trade marks, with the Full Federal Court ruling Monday that the Registrar did not have the power to fix the mistake of her own initiative.