Cat Fredenburgh

Macquarie's fight with a NSW credit union -- which saw the bank's 'Macbank' trade mark cancelled because, a delegate found, it had only been used colloquially -- has landed in the Federal Court.   

The Tax Office has asked the High Court to reverse a landmark ruling that found an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, a decision that affects $50 billion in trust distributions.

A court has approved the discontinuance of two class actions against the Northern Territory government over its alleged failure to properly fund essential health and interpreting services in remote Indigenous communities.

Spanish infrastructure company Acciona has resolved proceedings over a contract for the construction of a $511 million waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia.

Vittoria Cantarella has taken the fight to revive its ‘Oro’ trade marks to the High Court, arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the marks, which were first used by another coffee maker.

A judge has rejected claims from the defendants in a sinking homes class action by Sydney homeowners that determining common question is not a 'material change' that would warrant additional discovery, but still declined to order discovery.

A judge has stayed part of a $2.1 million judgment won under the SOPA Act by a builder contracted to work on an RSL club car park in light of payments owing to a sub-contractor under the Contractors Debts Act.

Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground have lost their bid for documents recording earthworks performed on the land before it was developed.

Accounting firm EY has signed a 10-year lease with Charter Hall for its new Melbourne headquarters in the East End Place precinct, just a stone's throw from Parliament.