Judges

The Full Federal Court has upheld US biotech company Sequenom's  patent for a noninvasive prenatal genetic test, rejecting rival Ariosa Diagnostic's argument that the patent merely described a way to extract incorporeal genetic information.

The managing partner of HWL Ebsworth, who has been targeted in a lawsuit by a former equity partner over the law firm's aborted IPO, is resisting efforts to be named as representative defendant in the case.

A judge has ordered Noni B owner Mosaic Brands to comply with a request for documents issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in relation to potential violations of the Spam Act.

In a major defeat that could affect the fate of six other cases lined up behind it, a judge has dismissed the lead plaintiff's claims in a class action against Volkswagen over deadly Takata airbags.

A judge has shot down an attempt by cruise giant Royal Caribbean to block victims of the White Island volcano eruption in New Zealand from suing for damages in a US court.

The self-represented lawyer behind a $1 billion class action against Facebook and Google over a cryptocurrency ad ban has said he will bring the first "no adverse costs" application to be heard by the Federal Court under the Competition and Consumer Act.

National Australia Bank has urged a court to impose a $15 million penalty for its five-year failure to adequately disclose its adviser fees, and has argued ASIC's push for a steeper penalty goes too far.

AMP and a number of its financial planning subsidiaries have launched a bid to declass a group proceeding jointly run by Piper Alderman and Shine Lawyers over allegedly excessive insurance premiums.

Google has lost its challenge to a ruling that it pay a Melbourne gangland lawyer $40,000 for the results of an internet search that included a link to a defamatory article, with an appeals court affirming the search engine giant was a publisher of the results.

Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court it was “more than reasonable” for him to assume an unarmed Afghan man was a hostile insurgent because he saw another soldier shoot at the man first.