A Federal Court judge has ordered software development company Sea-Tech Automation to pay $4.3 million in a copyright case over a computer program for a drink monitoring system.
AMP’s general counsel Brian Salter says he did not know he was sacked until he read the company’s announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange on Monday morning.
Quinn Emanuel has been forced to bow out as class action counsel in a case against Bank of Queensland after litigation funder Vannin Capital called for the law firm’s $4 million fee to be challenged.
AMP’s chairwoman Catherine Brennar has resigned and the firm’s general counsel has left, as the company faces possible criminal charges for misleading the corporate regulator over its decade-long practice of charging undue fees to clients.
The former CEO of the lead contractor on the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project now facing corruption charges was the target of Australian Federal Police search warrants that were “too broad” to be sufficient, the Federal Court was told on Friday.
Unions are calling for the Fair Work Commission to be given the authority to arbitrate industrial disputes and become a “one-stop shop” for workplace grievances.
A judge has denied an attempt by adult exhibition operator Sexpo to gain pre-litigation access to documents held by members of a movement that last year linked the exhibition to child pornography, saying Sexpo had not establish a belief that the statements damaged its reputation.
Clayton Utz’s public statements referencing its terms of engagement with AMP in drafting an independent report are irrelevant if it knew the document was destined for the corporate regulator, legal experts say, and transcripts from the Royal Commission suggest the law firm did know.
Bluescope Steel has been ordered to pay over $2 million to fencing manufacturer Gram Engineering after the Federal Court ruled Bluescope infringed Gram’s registered design for a fencing panel sheet.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lost its appeal in a case against a former Australian Wheat Board senior executive over an alleged kickback scam in relation to the United Nation’s Oil-for-Food programme.