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Class action slams Carnival’s ‘bizarre’ bid for law firm’s strategy docs
Class Actions 2023-06-29 11:00 pm By Gareth Baker

A Shine Lawyers class action over norovirus outbreaks on Carnivalā€™s Sun Princess cruise ship has called an attempt to see documents outlining its strategy for the case ā€œabusiveā€ and ā€œbizarreā€, as the cruise operator continues its fight to have the suit struck out.Ā 

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Crown backpays $1.2M to employees wrongly classified as award-free
Employment 2023-06-23 4:36 pm By Gareth Baker

Casino operator Crown Resorts has agreed to backpay employees more than $1.2 million, after the company notified the Fair Work Ombudsman that it had underpaid workers at its Melbourne and Perth locations for almost six years.Ā 

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Judge ‘very concerned’ by delay, miscommunication in P&O Cruises cases
Personal injury 2023-06-22 3:30 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has expressed her concern over delays in a suite of cases filed against P&O Cruises by holidaymakers who were seriously injured in a fatal bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.

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Bid for security in Shine’s no win, no fee cruise class action may not be ‘hopeless’
Class Actions 2023-06-15 11:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Shine Lawyers has been ordered to hand over its costs agreement with the lead applicant in a class action over norovirus outbreaks on Carnival’s Sun Princess cruise ship, amid a likely plan by the cruise operator to seek security for costs in the no win, no fee class action.

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Singer Katy Perry appeals loss in trade mark stoush with Aussie designer
Appeals 2023-06-13 9:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Pop star Katy Perry has appealed her loss in a long-running trade mark fight with an Australian fashion designer over the right to use her name to sell clothing in Australia.

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Targets of Pokemon’s IP lawsuit were victims of identity theft, court told
Intellectual Property 2023-06-02 3:04 pm By Christine Caulfield

The defendants in a trade mark infringement case by the Pokemon Company were the victims of identity theft and were wrongly named in the suit, a court has heard.

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Concert promoterā€™s case against TEG over One Direction tour goes south
Entertainment 2023-05-26 4:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Concert promoter Mark Filby has lost his case against former Nine unit TEG Live, alleging that it nabbed his idea when it partnered with Coles to promote a 2013 Australian tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction.Ā 

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Katy Perry shorts could ‘fall between the cracks’, designer tells court
Intellectual Property 2023-05-10 2:11 pm By Cindy Cameronne

US singer Katy Perry and an Australian fashion designer are at loggerheads over court orders to be made following a judge’s finding the pop star was liable for trade mark infringement, with concerns raised that Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’ shorts could “fall between the cracks”.Ā 

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‘Don’t even waste my time’: Judge trashes NSW’s bid for messages in music festival class action
Class Actions 2023-05-05 2:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has criticised a bid by the NSW government to access seven months of messages relating to drugs by the lead plaintiff in a class action over allegedly illegal strip searches at a Byron Bay music festival, saying they seemed ā€œwholly irrelevantā€ to the case.Ā 

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Katy Perry loss shows fame no ticket to ride ‘roughshod’ over trade mark owners
Analysis 2023-05-01 12:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

An infringement ruling against US singer Katy Perry in a case brought by an Australian fashion designer is a “win for the little guy”, experts say, showing that fame doesn’t give celebrities a blank cheque to exploit their brand at the expense of someone’s else’s registered trade mark.

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