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Cloud banking provider Temenos can access legal advice in credit union’s case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-07-31 10:21 pm By Andy Sidler

Swiss fintech Temenos has partially won its bid to view legal advice received by the Northern Inland Credit Union in a lawsuit alleging the cloud banking provider made misleading representations during negotiations for the installation of a new core banking system.

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Former EY partner loses $1M share dispute against National Tiles
Securities 2024-07-30 3:03 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former EY partner and ousted board member at National Tiles has lost his $1 million claim alleging the company breached implied terms in a contract by requiring him to sign a “draconian, unreasonable and unacceptable” share agreement.

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Monsanto defeats class action alleging weed killer Roundup causes cancer
Class Actions 2024-07-25 4:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic but did not go so far as to say it definitively does not cause cancer, while also dressing down the lawyers for both sides for causing delays in the case.

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Investor class action can’t see Virgin’s advice from Herbert Smith Freehills
Class Actions 2024-07-23 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected arguments that Virgin Australia waived legal professional privilege over advice from Herbert Smith Freehills by claiming in a class action defence that it had a reasonable belief that statements in a prospectus for a $324 million capital raising were not misleading.

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Grays hit with $10M penalty for misleading cars listings
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-07-18 11:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Online auction site Grays has been ordered to pay $10 million in penalties after it admitted to making misleading statements in the descriptions of at least 750 cars listed for sale on its website. 

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Fortescue accused of ‘extraordinary invasion of privacy’ of start-up trio
Intellectual Property 2024-07-12 11:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

Seeking to quash search orders won by metals company Fortescue against former employees who founded a green iron rival, a lawyer for the start-up has said three terabytes of data were indiscriminately copied, including confidential, privileged and irrelevant material.

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Fortescue’s private investigators trailed trips to Kmart while spying on ex-employees, court told
Intellectual Property 2024-07-10 4:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Metal mining company Fortescue hired private investigators to spy on former employees who created green iron start-up Element Zero, sifting through their mail, taking photos of their children and following them to Kmart, a court has heard. 

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Contingency fees for class action lawyers are allowed, says Full Court
Class Actions 2024-07-05 11:05 am By Cindy Cameronne

Lawyers are allowed to take a cut from a class action settlement or judgment under a so-called solicitors’ common fund order, the Full Federal Court has ruled, saying they are a permissive use of the court’s power.

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Kraken crypto exchange operator denies it offered credit facility
Cryptocurrency 2024-07-01 11:22 pm By Sam Matthews

The Australian provider of the Kraken crypto exchange has told a court that its margin trading product is not a credit facility, rejecting the corporate regulator’s “overly broad” definition of the word ‘credit’. 

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Fortescue accused of ‘egregious material nondisclosure’ in case against green iron start-up
Intellectual Property 2024-06-26 10:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Start-up Element Zero claims Fortescue did not disclose material information to the court when it obtained search orders in its case alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the mining company’s confidential information.

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