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La Trobe University has reached a settlement with the head of its law school, Dr Patrick Keyzer, to resolve legal action alleging it breached its workplace obligations when it suspended him over bullying complaints. The university dropped its disciplinary proceedings against Keyzer, with no adverse findings being made.
Elite competition groups Allens and Herbert Smith Freehills will represent Vodafone and TPG in their lawsuit filed Friday challenging the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's opposition to their proposed $15 billion tie-up.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has come up short in its appeal of a ruling that found it had produced insufficient evidence of a laundry detergent cartel, in the first so-called hub and spoke case brought by the competition regulator.
Crown Resorts has appealed a ruling in a shareholder class action against it allowing 18 former employees, who were jailed as part of the Chinese government's crackdown on gambling, to answer questions about its business in China.
The High Court will not review an appeals court's decision to approve a $64 million settlement in litigation over the failure of Banksia Securities while rejecting the funder's commission and legal fees.
TV giant Foxtel wants another shot at opposing a trade mark by telco China Unicom, after a judge let stand an IP Australia decision refusing to revoke the trade mark when law firm Allens missed a deadline for opposing the mark.
The Geelong Football Club has launched Federal Court proceedings against a promotional firm it claims passed itself off as the famous AFL club in order to procure payments from members.
The ACCC will not oppose Origin Energy's sale of the Ironback coal seam gas project to joint venture partner Australia Pacific for $231 million, less than a third of what it paid for the project ten years ago.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has pared its criminal cartel case against Country Care Group and two individuals, cutting over 100 charges in an indictment that details two alleged cartel agreements the Australian mobility equipment provider entered into in relation to bids on NSW government tenders.
The High Court has granted ASIC special leave to appeal a judgment that let a former director of Gold Coast finance company MFS Group partially off the hook for $147.5 million in misappropriated funds, after ASIC argued the High Court should intervene to clarify the scope of the word "officer" under the Corporations Act.