Viterra Malt has come up short in a second bid to access communications between Cargill Australia and its lawyers, in a case alleging fraudulent concealment by Viterra in its $420 million sale of malt producer Joe White Maltings to Cargill Australia in 2013.
Melbourne-based Collins St Brewing has sued rival artisanal brewer La Sirene for allegedly violating its “urban ale” trade mark.
Volkswagen lost its bid Tuesday to exclude evidence from its own expert witness it claims has gone off script, an early blow to the car maker in the massive trial alleging it installed dual-mode software in diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests.
Lawyers running a class action against Murray Goulburn want access to evidence that the dairy cooperative’s trust consulted with a QC about possible claims against its law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills.
A judge has called for a referee to look at Maurice Blackburn’s fees for running a shareholder class action against QBE Insurance that settled late last year for $133 million.
The judge who sided with Medibank in the ACCC’s failed case last year paid little attention to one of the consumer regulator’s central arguments against the private health insurer, a court heard Monday.
A federal court judge has found that a bovine gene patent held by Cargill Inc. is invalid, but said the American agriculture giant could beef up the patent claims in response to his ruling.
The trial against three of Australia’s biggest banks over alleged interest rate rigging was pushed back again on Wednesday after lawyers for National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group told the Federal Court they were still in settlement talks with the securities regulator.