Telecommunications giant Optus has won court approval to access employee documents in order to pinpoint the location of a suspected fraudster who obtained over 3,400 Optus mobile devices.
Auditing firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu wants to challenge a ruling that forces some of its partners to hand over evidence to shareholders in a class action over accounting work for collapsed engineering company Hastie Group.
The decision by a federal judge to refuse calls for a confidentiality order keeping under wraps S&P Global’s massive class action settlement is a welcome one, experts say, and a preview of judgments to come.
Chinese tech company Hytera Communications Corporation has been ordered to hand over source code for all radio devices at the heart of a international patent dispute with Motorola Solutions.
A judge on Thursday struck out former Prime Minister Mark Latham’s defence in a defamation case filed against him by the political editor of pop culture site Junkee, calling it an “extraordinary document” and the “antithesis of a pleading”.
Generic drug maker Alphapharm is fighting a bid by global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis to block the listing of one of its injector pens, saying the proposed injunction should be denied because Sanofi is seeking to amend the patent at issue.
S&P Global will pay $215 million to settle six consolidated class actions brought by investors over toxic CDOs, a figure revealed by the Federal Court on Thursday despite calls that it be kept secret.
A judge has denied a bid for a strict regime for dealing with confidential information in a lawsuit between cheese giants Fonterra and Bega over alleged violations of the terms of a trade mark licensing agreement.
A Federal Court judge has criticised Volkswagen for being “uncooperative” in refusing to tell the court who authorised the defeat device at the heart of the auto giant’s diesel emissions cheating scandal.
Letters by law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth for its client amid a contractual and consumer law dispute between two technology companies has been described by a judge as “bullying” and “threatening”.