BHP has filed a High Court challenge to orders requiring it to pay labour hire workers at mines in central Queensland the same as its workers.
The mayor of a Perth local council has been awarded $250,000 in damages for defamation against a constituent who made a series of Facebook posts falsely alleging that he was misusing a public office.
Social media darling Hismile has lost a challenge to a trade mark application by MySmile, after failing to prove its rival’s mark was deceptively similar to its own viral dental care brand.
A Tasmanian disability group home and respite care provider has been hit with a $1.1 million penalty after admitting it failed to notify the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission about reportable incidents 474 times.
More than 38,000 retail investors have received nearly $40 million in refunds after an ASIC investigation found “widespread weaknesses” in how issuers of contracts for difference products comply with their obligations.
Moray & Agnew has poached a government partner from HWL Ebsworth for its Melbourne office, the third government lawyer to jump ship from HWLE to the firm in recent months.
A court has largely set aside examination orders against executives and solicitors for oil and gas company Moreton Resources and MRV Metals, finding they were an abuse of process.
Merck KGaA has failed to block Pfizer’s ‘Abrysvo’ trade mark for its RSV vaccine, with a delegate finding no likelihood of confusion with the mark for Merck’s Mavenclad MS drug despite their visual similarities.
Author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has sent a second concerns notice to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas over comments he made during a radio interview after her invitation to the Adelaide Writers Week festival was pulled.
A judge has refused to bifurcate a dispute between Smart Trikes and Target over the supply and eventual recall of allegedly unsafe convertible strollers, finding any time and cost savings were likely to prove illusory.