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AIG loses bid for docs despite privilege waiver over barristers’ advice
Insurance 2022-07-05 6:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

AIG can’t force investment firm Sayers to hand over communications over which it claimed legal professional privilege, with a judge rejecting the argument that Sayers could not “cherry pick” which advice it disclosed after waiving privilege over advice given by two barristers in 2017 and 2019.

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Litigation funder shareholders battle over ownership
Business of Law 2022-07-04 6:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Litigation funder Embedded Claims has filed court proceedings against one of its shareholders after its former bankrupt director “ineffectively” transferred off half of his shares.

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Seven wins access to CCTV footage in defamation case by Jarryd Hayne supporter
Media 2022-07-04 6:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A man who says he was falsely accused by a Seven journalist of spitting at an alleged rape victim of rugby league footballer Jarryd Hayne must hand over key CCTV footage he claims vindicates him in his defamation suit against Seven.

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Stock Swami admits he lied to Tolga Kumova’s lawyers in defamation trial
Defamation 2022-07-01 2:16 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Twitter personality Alan Davison, who runs the account Stock Swami, has admitted he misled lawyers for mining investor Tolga Kumova and deliberately failed to obey court orders for discovery in cross-examination during a defamation trial. 

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Samsung Bioepis sues again to invalidate Humira biosimilar
Intellectual Property 2022-06-30 2:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Korean drug company Samsung Bioepis has filed a second lawsuit seeking to invalidate German drug company Fresenius Kadi’s patent for a biosimilar of blockbuster arthritis drug Humira.

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Court finds sessional academic lecturer an employee, not a contractor
Employment 2022-06-30 5:14 pm By Cindy Cameronne

In its first decision applying a landmark High Court judgment redefining the test for when a worker is employed, the Federal Court has found a sessional lecturer for a higher education institution was an employee.

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Stock Swami flies to Sydney for cross on ‘deficient’ discovery in Kumova trial
Trials 2022-06-29 1:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumova’s defamation case, saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.

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‘You get him in the witness box’: Kumova trial on hold after judge questions Stock Swami’s discovery
Defamation 2022-06-28 9:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.

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New Zealand should regulate class actions, allow CFOs: report
Policy and Regulation 2022-06-28 12:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The New Zealand law commission has called on the government to implement a class action regime that would allow funders to seek the equivalent of a common fund order to “improve access to justice and efficiency in litigation”.

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Nuix ex-CEO not entitled to ‘special treatment’, trial judge told
Securities 2022-06-27 6:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The former boss of embattled tech company Nuix is asking for “special treatment” by arguing he is owed $183 million in options under a 2008 agreement, a judge has heard on the first day of trial in the ex-CEO’s case.

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