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REA, Domain settle trade mark lawsuit over realestate.com redirect
Intellectual Property 2019-02-21 10:32 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Property listing rivals REA Group and Domain have settled a trade mark lawsuit over an agreement between Domain and the owner of US websiteĀ realestate.com to redirect Australian traffic to Domain’s website.

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Global insurer Jardine Lloyd Thompson can access names of local councils behind class action
Class Actions 2019-02-21 9:15 pm By Miklos Bolza

Global insurer Jardine Lloyd Thompson has won access to the identities of local councils suing it in a NSW class action brought by Quinn Emanuel alleging the broker charged the councils excessive premiums.

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Foxtel, Optus contractor faces possible class action over ‘sham’ contracts with technicians
Employment 2019-02-21 8:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

Foxtel and Optus contractor BSA may be hit with a class action on behalf of telecommunications technicians allegedly engaged as independent contractors so the company could avoid paying them certain entitlements.

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ABC, Fairfax slam judge’s ‘narrow’ definition of espionage in Chau Chak Wing appeal
Defamation 2019-02-21 3:22 pm By Miklos Bolza

Media organisations ABC and Fairfax have argued that a judge’s definition of espionage was “artificially narrow” when striking out their truth defence to a defamation case brought by Chinese philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing.

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Leading female lawyer at Piper Alderman sues partnership for sex discrimination
Business of Law 2019-02-21 2:22 pm By Christine Caulfield

A female Piper Alderman partner has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the firm’s other partners and has won a temporary injunction blocking the partnership from ousting her.

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Westpac hit with class action over home loan practices
Class Actions 2019-02-21 10:26 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Westpac has been hit with a class action for allegedly breaching responsible lending laws by providing unsuitable loans, the first of the big four banks to face a class action in the wake of the banking royal commission’s scathing final report.

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One Key Workforce liquidators win fight with CFMMEU over access to $1M
Article 2019-02-20 11:04 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union has lost a battle with liquidators for failed labour hire business One Key Workforce over access to $1 million it said was owed in unpaid wages only to its members.

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Calgary CFO convicted for misstating company revenue
Healthcare 2019-02-20 10:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The former chief financial officer forĀ Calvary Health Care has been convicted and sentenced after pleading guilty to making false records that misstated the company’s revenue by millions of dollars.

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Court to issue speedy ruling on Sanofi’s second stab at injector pen injunction
Intellectual Property 2019-02-20 9:48 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Full Federal Court will issue its judgment Friday in French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi’s challenge to a judge’s refusal to block Alphapharm from listing an insulin injector pen on the PBS, just two weeks after the court heard arguments in the appeal.

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Landmark personal leave challenge by Mondelez gets Full Court’s attention
Employment 2019-02-20 9:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Full Federal Court on Thursday will hear arguments in an employment case that calls into question the meaning of the personal leave provisions of the Fair Work Act and could have significant ramifications for how companies calculate the entitlement for shift workers.

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