Bauer Consumer Media has won a five-year legal battle over Evergreen Television’s Discover Downunder trade mark, with the Full Federal Court setting aside a prior IP Australia decision and deregistering the mark.
Pop singer Guy Sebastian will enter mediation later this month in an attempt to settle his dispute with former manager Titus Day over allegedly unpaid entitlements for promotional work.
A judge has granted a bid to add former Radio Rentals CEO James Marshall and the beleaguered company’s insurer, AIG Australia, as respondents in a class action, over the protests of Marshall’s lawyer, who said his client couldn’t afford to pay for his defence.
Mining giant BHP has been hit with the biggest class action in UK history on behalf of over 235,000 Brazilians claiming more than AUS$7 billion in damages resulting from the disastrous Fundao dam collapse in 2015.
Vodafone and TPG will file a Federal Court challenge to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s opposition to their proposed $15 billion merger, teeing up the biggest merger challenge ever heard by the court.
The High Court has sided with Gina Rinehart in relation to a dispute with two of her children over billions of dollars in iron ore mining assets, saying the matter should be heard in arbitration.
Lawyers for a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts have won their hard-fought battle to question ex-employees about the casino giant’s thwarted business in China, with a judge ruling Wednesday there would likely be a “serious adverse effect” on the administration of justice if they weren’t free to give evidence ahead of trial.
Two Grocon units have successfully struck out portions of an affidavit by the general counsel of property management firm Dexus Property Group, claiming prejudice in a dispute over $43.2 million in allegedly unpaid debts.
Judgment is expected next week in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case against Pacific National alleging the rail company made an anti-competitive bid for Aurizon’s Acacia Ridge Terminal and intermodal freight business.
Israeli drug maker Teva has won its bid for communications between Germany-based Boehringer and capsule manufacturers to help prove its claim that a patent at the centre of a dispute over the top-selling inhaler Spiriva was invalid for obviousness.