Chain logistics company Brambles is facing a second class action alleging it breached its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to revise its overly rosy 2017 financial forecast on several occasions.
A claim for damages by Optus over Telstra’s ‘Unlimited’ ad campaign, which was found to be misleading and deceptive, appears to have been resolved by the rivals out of court.
A judge has denied a Westpac unit’s bid to strike allegations that it knew about a $1.9 million Ponzi scheme from a class action alleging the bank aided the Ponzi schemer’s illegal conduct.
Employment law firm McDonald Murholme has lost an appeal in a case over $37,000 in unpaid bills for five months of radio advertisements on the Victorian Radio Network the firm said were ineffective.
The ACCC has scored fines totaling $5.5 million in its case against companies and individuals involved in an alleged cartel over the supply of polycarbonate, a little more than a month before trial kicks off against the alleged mastermind behind the cartel.
The ACCC has won its request for an injunction blocking rail freight operator Aurizon from shutting its intermodal business down while a competition lawsuit the regulator filed over Aurizon’s proposed sale of the business to Pacific National makes its way through the court.
McDonald’s has agreed to change its Corner Cafe logo, after the famed Corner Hotel in Melbourne filed a lawsuit claiming the global food giant’s new hipster cafe violates its trade marks.
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An Australian barristers group is seeking to appeal a ruling that allowed the Australian Bar Association to move forward with its plans to trade mark the terms “Austbar” and “Aust bar”.
Slater and Gordon has filed a shareholder class action against Brambles over its allegedly misleading and overly rosy 2017 financial forecasts, beating rival Maurice Blackburn to the punch almost 10 months after it announced it was investigating a shareholder class action against the logistics company.