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Two Clive Palmer companies have been slugged with indemnity costs after they were blocked from accessing documents held by two law firms and a litigation funder to pursue a potential lawsuit against Queensland Nickel, with a judge saying the case was “hopeless” from the start.
Pasta distributor Conga Foods is challenging a ruling that dashed its bid to register its 'La Famiglia Rana' trade mark in Australia.
A judge has slashed security for costs sought in a case brought by the liquidators of engineering and construction company Forge Group after the former directors targeted in the action failed to explain why they had retained multiple law firms.
A trade mark application by a China Australia trade association contains an "identical copy" of the Sydney Opera House's sail design, the trust behind the iconic landmark has claimed as it seeks revocation of the mark on the grounds of bad faith.
A judge has dismissed an application by Domino’s Pizza to strike out the pleadings in a class action accusing the pizza giant of making misleading and deceptive representations to franchisees which caused drivers to be underpaid.
A former lover of prominent Sydney barrister and former mayor David Rofe QC has lost a feud over his $27 million estate, with a judge confirming the validity of a will written years after Rofe was diagnosed with dementia.
Herald Sun executive Dr Colin Rubenstein has settled a lawsuit by former Labor MP Melissa Parke accusing him of defaming her in an email and article relating to her 2019 pre-selection speech, after she failed in a bid to strike down his honest opinion defence.
A judge has found the Commonwealth and Murray Darling Basin Authority are not "public authorities", striking out large portions of their defence in a class action brought by farmers alleging negligent oversight of water management in the critical Australian river system.
Reckitt Benckiser has resolved its lawsuit against US consumer goods giant SC Johnson over allegedly misleading ads touting its "can't miss" Raid Max insecticide, just months after a judge criticised Reckitt's "excessively literal and strained" reading of the ads.
A former Telstra employee has lost her challenge to a ruling which denied her workers compensation for a hip injury suffered after a night out during a work trip, finding it did not arise out of her employment simply because it took place at the hotel booked by the telco.