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The publisher of The Australian will bring a truth defence to defamation claims by two sacked executives of commercial real estate broker JLL who claim they were falsely accused of sexual harassment, a court has heard.
A judge has approved a "modest" $8.7 million settlement in a class action against medical device maker Exactech over allegedly defective joint replacements, saying the settlement was fair and reasonable given the limited assets of the company, whose parent has filed for bankruptcy in the US.
The High Court has declined to hear an appeal of a ruling that found the directors of payday lenders Cigno and BSF are liable for the companies' unlicensed credit activity.
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Liquidators for companies in the Dyldam Group have won an extension until early 2027 for further investigation of the defunct developer.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to disqualify a judge from a damages hearing after he found it liable for shareholder oppression of its managing director.
A judge has signed of on a settlement struck by the liquidator for failed financial services firm Babcock & Brown, which will resolve all remaining and future shareholder disputes, which have beleaguered the liquidator for 12 years.
Abbey Animal Health has managed only a “pyrrhic victory" in a patent case against rival Virbac over an antiparasitic drug, and must withdraw its Levamox Duo product from the market, a court has found.
It faced defeat at the Full Federal Court and encountered a deadlocked High Court, still Aristocrat persisted in its seven-year fight to get patent protection for the popular Lightning Link poker machine. The long game paid off.
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A judge has hit Dyldam Developments' former boss Sam Fayad and his two sons with costs after ordering them to pay $50 million in a case by the liquidator of a special purpose vehicle, but awarded costs to payment intermediaries for the liquidator's "manifestly weak" case against them.
The corporate regulator should not be immune from the risk of special costs for actions doomed to fail, says a judge who flayed ASIC last month for bringing a case against TerraCom directors it should have known was a dud.