Sending an email of advice to third parties does not necessarily constitute waiver of legal professional privilege, a Federal Court judge has ruled, siding with the University of Sydney in an intellectual property dispute with ObjectiVision.
The Full Court has allowed Yazaki Corporation to file additional documents as it weighs the ACCC’s case that the auto parts maker got off easy when the federal court slapped it with a $9.5 million penalty in May for engaging in cartel conduct.
A former CSIRO scientist who claimed she was sacked after speaking out about systemic sex discrimination has won court approval to expand her lawsuit against Australia’s national science agency.
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.
Campbell Soup Co. has lost its bid to trade mark the phrase “Fruits and Roots” for beverages, with an IP Australia delegate saying the food giant had not proven the mark could distinguish its products.
Fairfax Media has lost a bid to stop online property advertising company REA Group from trademarking its web address realestate.com.au.
Reckitt Benckiser has brought a claim against its familiar courtroom foe – consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble – over a television commercial and in-store promotion it says violates the consumer laws.
A judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria hearing a case brought by Cargill Australia alleging fraudulent concealment in the $420 million sale of malt producer Joe White Maltings by Viterra Malt Pty Ltd won’t loosen the reins on lawyers who have spent “millions of dollars” on discovery.
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.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a settlement in a consumer protection class action on the eve of trial in the Federal Court.