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Engineering firm Destec has lost its bid to throw out a trade secrets case by Mineral Resources, with a judge giving the mining giant another chance to particularise its claims.
Maurice Blackburn should provide $1.77 million in security in a class action over add-on insurance because the firm faces high risks in other class actions which could affect its ability to cover an adverse costs order, a court has heard.
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The builders involved in Adelaide's $1.85 billion Royal Adelaide Hospital have lost their appeal of a decision blocking their bid to access documents from the state government on parliamentary privilege grounds.
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The funder behind a class action against Transport for NSW by residents displaced by the construction of Sydney’s WestConnex tunnel has been ordered to pay $134,000 to cover the class action’s costs after it brought a failed action to rescind trust funds.
The funder behind a class action against Transport for NSW that has switched law firms five times has been hit with indemnity costs after it failed to brief a barrister in a dispute over its bid to rescind trust funds.
Former state Liberal MP Moira Deeming has won $300,000 in damages against Victorian party leader John Pesutto over statements found to have falsely conveyed she had links to neo-Nazis.
In a landmark ruling, the High Court has recognised the availability of damages for psychiatric injury caused by an employer's negligent dismissal process, restoring a $1.4 million award to a former non-profit employee.
UK currency exchange Wise has lost its challenge to a crypto asset management firm's ‘Bitwise’ trade mark, with IP Australia finding it could not monopolise the word ‘wise’.
A Herbert Smith Freehills mergers and acquisitions partner faces an internal investigation over a tweet aimed at Arnold Bloch Leibler partner Jeremy Leibler.