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Right of entry permits will soon be issued in photo ID format, in an effort to curb what the Federal Government has called abuse by "militant" union officials.
AMP will challenge the admissibility of an expert report central to ASIC's case over alleged insurance churning by one of the wealth manager's former financial advisers, after a judge called on the regulator to be more transparent about its communication with the experts in the case.
The general manager of service station chain Westside Petroleum has been named in a lawsuit by the Fair Work Ombudsman alleging the company shortchanged workers more than $62,000.
A Melbourne-based restaurant and food truck operator selling "game-changing kebabs" has sued popular retailer Cotton On for allegedly infringing the copyright for the "Biggie Smalls" crown logo under which it markets its services.
Leading solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS has filed a lawsuit against Norway-based solar energy company REC Solar for allegedly infringing its patented solar technology, less than two weeks after filing similar cases against China-based competitors JinkoSolar and LONGi Solar.
The Federal Court has been given exclusive jurisdiction over white collar criminal matters, with an additional $35 million in funding coming its way to mange the expanded caseload.
Fairfax Media will seek to use documents provided by the US Department of Justice to amend its defence in a defamation case brought by wealthy Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing over articles that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald linking him to an international bribery scandal.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose the merger of two companies that own some of Australia's largest intellectual property boutiques.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, facing cross-claims by credit ratings agency Fitch in a class action alleging it gave false or misleading double A and triple A ratings to synthetic CDOs backed by Sigma Financial, told investors Fitch's withdrawal of Sigma's credit rating prior to the collapse of the $27 billion investment fund was a "technical" issue, the bank has admitted.
The ACCC will announce in May whether it will approve the proposed $15 billion merger of telco giants TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia, after the parties' failure to comply with requests for information caused the regulator to suspend its timeline last month.