At caretaker at a Sydney private school has been awarded $3.1 million in damages after he was seriously injured in a workplace gas explosion, with five defendants including building contractors, certifiers and gas suppliers all found to be equally liable.
Global solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS wants to amend the patent behind its solar technology, more than six months after launching infringement proceedings against three rivals.
The University of Sydney has emerged triumphant in its long running battle over the intellectual property rights of a glaucoma testing device, with the Federal Court ruling against opthalmic diagnostic tool manufacturer ObjectiVision.
The liquidator of a subsidiary of collapsed Ambient Advertising has launched legal proceedings against the company’s director after getting the all-clear from the Federal Court to enter into an agreement with a litigation funder that will take 45 per cent of the proceeds.
A judge has given the thumbs up to AMP’s new program to identify and compensate victims of so-called insurance churning by its financial planning arm after inadequacies were revealed in the original scheme.
Channel Seven has lost a six-year defamation battle over a Today Tonight story that described a woman on single parenting payments as “the Centrelink cheat who got awayâ, after an appeals court found the publication was “manifestly unreasonable”.
Wyeth has lost a bid to claim legal professional privilege over certain documents sought by Merck Sharp & Dohme as the two rivals head towards a hearing for the reopening of the Prevnar 13 patent case.
Chemical giant BASF has dropped a lawsuit against Lubrizol Corporation challenging proposed amendments to a fuel additive patent.
An Australian actor best known for his role on true crime drama series Underbelly is being sued for sexual harassment after he allegedly grabbed an extra on the set of Bikie Wars and forced his tongue into her mouth without consent.
Against a backdrop of an industrial relations system which has diminished union and workersâ power, class actions are again re-emerging as an alternative tool to challenge employersâ unlawful conduct. And in the current class actions landscape, the ability to run closed class proceedings on behalf of union members, or otherwise offer alternative fee arrangements to non-members in open class proceedings, is essential to trade unionsâ willingness to embrace the representative proceeding regime, writes Slater & Gordon lawyer Alex Blennerhassett.