A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia’s system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm’s partnership.
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued to invalidate two patents held by a German competitor for a pre-filled syringe to treat age-related eye diseases, as generic drug makers race for a piece of the lucrative eye drug market.
The Indian government has lodged an appeal after a judge found it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites.
Fleet management company FleetPartners has been stung with a shareholder class action over a revised 2019 earnings guidance that doomed its planned merger with McMillan Shakespeare.
AustralianSuper has admitted that it contravened superannuation regulations when it failed to merge the accounts of members who had multiple accounts, but says it has remediated affected customers more than $69 million.
South Australian MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked a court to throw out a “misconceived” lawsuit by a former staffer accusing her of bullying, saying she is not an ’employer’ under the Fair Work Act.
Plaintiff law firm Shine Lawyers has succeeded in narrowing the services an early learning services chain can register its ‘Shine Advantage’ trade mark for.
EnergyAustralia has hit back at a lawsuit by Australian parents accusing it of misleading customers, saying it was “valid” to market its products involving a carbon offset scheme as ‘carbon neutral’.
The communications regulator has slapped Kmart Australia with a $1.3 million penalty for sending more than 200,000 marketing emails to customers who had previously unsubscribed from its communications.