The maker of Mother energy drinks has won an appeal of an IP Australia decision, succeeding in its bid to prevent a Victoria-based company from registering Kangaroo Mother as a trade mark for beverages.
Deloitte may seek confidentiality orders over the amount it agreed to pay to settle a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie.
An environment group that alleges former treasurer Josh Frydenberg rejected advice from the climate change office on a high-rise apartment development on protected wetlands near Brisbane has won access to correspondence about the project.
Pitcher Partners has lost its appeal of a decision that refused to stay a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family.
Ernst & Young has been hit with a discrimination suit by a former Asia Pacific director, who alleges she was fired after making complaints of bullying, harassment and discrimination.
Former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson has lost an appeal of a decision that found she was not unlawfully examined by the corporate regulator over the childcare company’s $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
Virgin Australia has settled a lawsuit brought by its former chief pilot alleging the airline sacked him for complaining of bullying and harassment by its CEO.
A shareholder class action that was filed in the wake of the banking royal commission over AMP’s fees-for-no-service practices has settled for $110 million.
Qantas faces a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers who allegedly never received refunds after flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Star Entertainment joint venture has been hit with a lawsuit by the Queensland arm of Multiplex Constructions over alleged costs overruns in the construction for a multi-billion-dollar resort in Brisbane.