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JD Group wins partial appeal in couple’s case over $10M off-the-plan apartment
Appeals 2022-12-02 2:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

Developer JD Group has scored a partial win in its challenge to a damages award to a Melbourne couple over a “deliberately misleading” rendering of a $9.6 million apartment, with a judge saying the case showed the “inherent risk” in buying apartments off-the-plan.

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Vanguard hit with penalty for misleading investors about ‘ethical’ fund
ASIC 2022-12-02 1:42 pm By Sam Matthews

Vanguard Investments has coughed up almost $40,000 for allegedly misleading investors about funds that purportedly did not invest in companies that sell or manufacture tobacco.

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Chemist Warehouse to stop selling Victoria’s Secret fragrances while lawsuit underway
Intellectual Property 2022-12-02 1:54 pm By Sam Matthews

US lingerie and beauty giant Victoria’s Secret has won undertakings from Chemist Warehouse to stop selling allegedly fake fragrance products until a trade mark suit against the pharmacy giant is decided.

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Corelogic again seeks to block copyright case over data scraping
Intellectual Property 2022-12-02 1:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Property data analytics firm CoreLogic is taking aim again at a lawsuit accusing it of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, months after a judge found the case was “defective and deficient”.

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Law firm launches action against Medibank as raw data released
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2022-12-01 3:00 pm By Christine Caulfield

Medibank faces a representative proceeding over last month’s data breach that exposed the sensitive information of millions of customers, as the private health insurer reveals more stolen data was posted online overnight.

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Funder’s commission cut by 33% in ‘lower risk’ employment class action
Employment 2022-12-01 3:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has cut a funder’s commission by 33 per cent after approving a $20 million settlement in a sham contracting class action against telco contractor BSA Limited, finding that funders should receive “significantly lower” payouts in employment cases.

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Crikey planned media blitz over Murdoch feud to up subscriptions, court told
Media 2022-12-01 5:29 pm By Sam Matthews

News outlet Crikey has handed over internal documents showing its plans to mount a marketing campaign portraying itself as the victim in a “David and Goliath” battle with Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch over an allegedly defamatory article about the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, a court has heard.

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A2 Milk class action can pursue NZ claims
Class Actions 2022-12-01 10:28 pm By Christine Caulfield

A shareholder class action against a2 Milk has won its bid to include claims under New Zealand law over the dairy company’s disclosures to the New Zealand stock exchange.

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Judge laments ‘extremely slow’ COVID-19 hotel quarantine class action
Class Actions 2022-12-01 9:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has pulled up legal teams in a class action against the state of Victoria on behalf of businesses that allegedly suffered loss from the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle, saying progress in the case has been “extremely slow”.

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ACCC flags ‘significant concerns’ with Cochlear’s $170M acquisition of Oticon Medical
Corporate 2022-12-01 5:09 pm By Christine Caulfield

The competition regulator has detailed “significant” concerns with Cochlear’s proposed acquisition of Oticon Medical, saying Thursday a tie-up would cut to three the number of cochlear implant suppliers in Australia.

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