McDonald’s is seeking the cancellation of trade marks held by famed Melbourne pub The Corner Hotel, which sued the fast food giant last year for allegedly violating its “Corner” trade marks with a experimental hipster cafe in Sydney.
A judge who entertained an anti-suit injunction in the AMP class action jurisdictional battle that set off what another judge called an “unseemly debacle” has ordered the applicant behind the injunction bid to pay costs.
Sirtex has been ordered to turn over information related to a possible acquisition to law firm Maurice Blackburn, which is leading a shareholder class action against the life sciences company.
Lawyers for a class action against the Federal Government-owned Airservices told a court Tuesday that higher salaries on individually negotiated management contracts did not leave managers better off than they would have been under relevant collective enterprise agreements.
A settlement has been reached in a class action against KPMG alleging it providing a misleading expert report to copper miner Discovery Metals that was used to reject a $830 million hostile takeover bid.
The trustee of the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust wants more details about an ecological landscaper’s allegation that it breached its duty of care by failing to make adequate disclosures about climate change risks.
A judge has rejected a bid by a group of Apache Corporation companies to break up a looming trial in a long-running dispute with WA-based oil and gas company Santos, saying holding a hearing on separate issues would not be the time saver Apache claims.
Container stevedore companies DP World Australia, Hutchison Ports Australia and Victoria International Container Terminal have agreed to change their standard form contracts with land transporters after the ACCC raised concerns that some terms of the agreements may violate the Australian Consumer Law.
Judgment is expected next week in the closely watched defamation suit brought by actor Geoffrey Rush against Nationwide News, with the ruling expected to generate considerable attention amid a spate of recent high-dollar awards in defamation cases and as the country embarks on an ambitious overhaul of its defamation laws.
Macquarie Bank has been hit with yet another lawsuit by a group of financial advisers alleging the firm breached the Fair Work Act by denying them regular wages, a case filed just days before the bank resolved an earlier action.