Events

A unit of spirits maker Pernod Ricard has lost its opposition to rival Sazerac's bid to register 'Stagg' as a trade mark for a whiskey brand, with an IP Australia delegate finding the mark was not deceptively similar to Pernod Ricard's 'Royal Stag' mark. 

The High Court of Australia will hear the appeal of a failed class action over the planned demolition of inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, which will involve consideration of the right to remain in settled social communities.

A funder bankrolling proceedings over the compulsory acquisition of land for the Westconnex road project in Sydney has lost its bid to revive a lawsuit against the plaintiffs, with an appeals court saying it was a “classic example of abuse of process”.

Shell’s Australian arm has succeeded in challenging a finding by the ATO that it needed to pay an additional $99 million in capital gains tax after it disposed of its 34.27 per cent holding in Woodside Petroleum.

An appeals court has tossed a challenge to a judgment against Polyaire, the lessee of an industrial premises in Sydney, after a judge found the air conditioning wholesaler was responsible for a fire that ignited after pellets were left exposed to the rain and sun.

A former United Global Capital financial adviser who was banned from registering as financial adviser for two years has been hit with a three-year ban following an unsuccessful review to the Administrative Review Tribunal. 

A former Mastercard business development director has admitted at trial to lying to the payments giant's finance department about the risk of 7-Eleven routing transactions to EFTPOS to seal a deal.

Vehicle leasing company FleetPartners has reached an agreement to resolve a shareholder class action for $27 million.

An appeal by the buyers of a $2.3 million real estate business on the NSW Central Coast has fallen short, with a court finding that their solicitor's knowledge of a security charge was properly imputed to them. 

AkzoNobel has lost its bid to add new expert evidence after the conclusion of trial in a dispute with Inpex over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.