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Glencore unit does not owe injured workers unlimited personal leave, court says
Employment 2020-01-21 4:09 pm By Miklos Bolza

A subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has defeated a case brought by the CFMEU claiming it was obligated to pay unlimited amounts of personal leave to sick or injured employees.

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Ten says report on genital silicone injections not defamatory, in public interest
Defamation 2020-01-21 2:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

Defending a defamation case brought by the head of a group of gay ‘pups’, Network Ten has argued that a report about an Australian man who died from genital silicone injections was substantially true and in the public interest.

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Biosimilar drug makers settle IP spat over arthritis drug Humira
Intellectual Property 2020-01-21 2:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

German drug company Fresenius Kadi has resolved a patent case brought by Korean drug company Samsung Bioepis over a biosimilar of top selling arthritis drug Humira.

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Trivago misled hotel booking customers to boost income, court finds
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-01-21 11:48 am By Miklos Bolza

Hotel booking aggregator Trivago misled consumers about its cheapest price promise by arranging its listings according to payments it received instead of the actual hotel room price, a court has found.

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‘Worthless and unsaleable’: Accounting firm hit with class action over Guvera advice
Class Actions 2020-01-20 2:07 pm By Miklos Bolza

Shareholders of collapsed music streaming platform Guvera have filed a class action against an accounting firm seeking to recoup their losses for the firm’s alleged negligence in promoting an investment opportunity in the failed tech company.

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Common fund order in stolen wages class action survives High Court ruling
Class Actions 2020-01-17 10:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

A common fund order granting the litigation funder behind the stolen wages class action 20 per cent of a $190 million settlement remains in force after a High Court judgment that did away with such orders, a judge has found.

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Court has power to make cy-pres orders in class action settlements, judge says
Class Actions 2020-01-17 10:19 pm By Christine Caulfield

The judge who last month approved a $29 million settlement in a consumer class action against Radio Rentals has held that courts have power to order part of a settlement sum to go to charitable causes where distributing the funds to group members is too hard or impossible.

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Griffin Coal can’t get hands on docs in long-running spat with Carna Group
Energy & Natural Resources 2020-01-17 2:27 pm By Miklos Bolza

Struggling mining firm Griffin Coal has been denied access to documents while defending a consumer law case brought by the liquidators of a collapsed mining services firm.

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Class action appeals ruling allowing 7-Eleven to seek litigation releases
Class Actions 2020-01-16 10:50 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The lead applicant in a class action against 7-Eleven has appealed a ruling that denied its bid to block the convenience store chain from seeking litigation releases from franchisees upon renewal of their contracts.

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Clive Palmer sues to block funding for resort timeshare class action
Class Actions 2020-01-16 9:06 pm By Miklos Bolza

A company owned by Clive Palmer has filed a lawsuit seeking to thwart a class action brought by villa owners in the billionaire’s now abandoned Palmer Coolum Resort.

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