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Lawsuit by ex-office manager against Bannister Law resolves
Employment 2023-07-12 5:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

A former accounts and office manager has resolved her case against class action firm Bannister Law alleging she was required to work while on leave and was fired after complaining about bullying.

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Ben Roberts-Smith appeals after court finds he committed war crimes
Appeals 2023-07-11 3:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has filed an appeal after he lost his defamation case against Nine-owned Fairfax in a ruling that found he committed murder in Afghanistan and was not a reliable witness. 

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‘Commercial nonsense’ ruling shot down in AMP lease dispute
Real Estate 2023-07-11 10:16 pm By Gareth Baker

Willis Australia has won an appeal against its landlord, AMP Capital, with a court ruling the insurance broker is entitled to withdraw notice it gave in December 2019 to renew its office lease. 

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Mining magnate Gina Rinehart can’t fight use of arbitration docs as trial in family feud begins
Trials 2023-07-10 3:44 pm By Gareth Baker

Hancock Prospecting can’t challenge an order that documents produced in arbitration are fair game, as the mining company’s chief, Gina Rinehart, battles her children in a trial over ownership of a valuable tenement set to start Monday.

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Solicitor loses argument that costs assessors can’t get do-over
Business of Law 2023-07-10 5:15 pm By Gareth Baker

A Sydney solicitor has lost a 10-year-old dispute with a former client over fees, after unsuccessfully claiming a cost assessor’s conduct in issuing multiple preliminary cost certificates ran afoul of the Legal Profession Act.

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Hytera appeals ruling it stole Motorola’s code, copied computer programs
Intellectual Property 2023-07-10 5:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera has launched an appeal of a ruling that it misappropriated the source code of US mobile phone giant Motorola in a case of “substantial industrial theft”.

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Care A2 loses bid for freezing order in case against Sports Flick exec
Corporate 2023-07-10 3:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Infant formula maker Care A2 Plus has lost a bid for a freezing order against the former chief financial officer of Sports Flick as it appeals a finding she had no involvement in a fellow executive’s “deceitful” scheme over a $5 million World Cup streaming deal. 

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‘Aldi bag of cash’ suit against Holding Redlich resolved, court hears
New South Wales 2023-07-07 1:32 pm By Gareth Baker

The NSW Labor Party has agreed to drop its case against law firm Holding Redlich for providing allegedly negligent advice over a $100,000 illegal cash donation delivered in an Aldi shopping bag.

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Monster Energy loses challenge to A&E Television’s trade mark
Intellectual Property 2023-07-07 5:42 pm By Gareth Baker

Monster Energy has lost a trade mark tiff with American broadcaster A&E Television, with IP Australia giving the media company the all-clear to register a mark for its ‘Monster Motor Challenge’ TV series. 

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Hotel detention legal, but lacked ‘care and humanity’, judge says
Human Rights 2023-07-06 10:27 pm By Gareth Baker

A federal court judge has slammed Australia’s use of makeshift hotel detention centres as lacking “ordinary human decency”, but ruled they are not illegal in the case of a Kurdish refugee who was held for 14 months in two Melbourne hotels. 

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