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Facebook owner Meta fined $20M for misleading data privacy app
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-07-26 9:48 am By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ordered Meta to pay a $20 million penalty for misleading consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep […]

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Judge blasts Pitcher Partners’ ‘terrible’ argument in $127M appeal against Twigg family
Appeals 2023-07-25 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An appeals court has taken Pitcher Partners to task in its appeal seeking to throw out a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in […]

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Arrium lenders file High Court challenge over directors’ loan drawdowns
Restructuring & Insolvency 2023-07-25 3:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Commonwealth Bank and other lenders of Arrium have filed for special leave to appeal to the High Court after losing their latest bid to make […]

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Shine’s bid for $32M in loan interest raises ‘never seen before’ conflicts: judge
Class Actions 2023-07-24 10:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Shine Lawyers’ bid to recoup “exorbitant” interest on a loan it took out to run pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has raised […]

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Vitamin boss barred from ‘mocking’ influencer Jessica Sepel
Intellectual Property 2023-07-24 11:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ordered the owner of vitamin brand Life Botanics to refrain from “vilifying, denigrating, disparaging or mocking” rival JSHealth, owned by influencer Jessica […]

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Fairfax wants Seven, Herbert Smith Freehills emails in Ben Roberts-Smith case
Defamation 2023-07-21 2:11 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Seven Network and law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Addisons are fighting Fairfax’s bid for communications relating to Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful defamation case, as the […]

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Judge orders ‘soft’ class closure in flex commissions class actions
Class Actions 2023-07-21 10:53 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Westpac, Macquarie and ANZ have won soft class closure orders ahead of mediation in three class actions over flexible commissions schemes after a judge found […]

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PwC partner wins court order barring forced departure amid leaks crisis
Tax 2023-07-20 3:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner who is suing the accounting firm for giving him the boot over a tax leaks scandal has won an interim injunction restraining […]

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Federal Court rejects ToolGen’s genome editing patent
Intellectual Property 2023-07-20 9:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has upheld findings from IP Australia that South Korean biotech ToolGen’s genome editing technology CRISPR is not patentable, but given the company one […]

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Norton Rose snags class action ace from US, elevates arbitration expert
Business of Law 2023-07-20 2:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Norton Rose Fulbright has snagged a class action lawyer with decades of US legal experience and elevated an arbitration expert who worked at a New […]

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