The Fair Work Commission has found that an electrician had no choice but to quit after copping an expletive-laden talking to by his boss, despite accepting that swearing was likely “part of the everyday work culture” at the blue-collar business.
S&P has reached a settlement in a case by two Cayman Island companies over alleged defective ratings but a class action won’t settle until “hell freezes over,” a court has heard.
Zip Co wants the High Court to weigh in on the defence of honest concurrent use in trade mark infringement cases, pointing to a “glaring inconsistency” between two recent rulings.
The administrators of Roberts Co have recommended that creditors accept a deal from founder Andrew Roberts that would see a cash contribution of $17.4 million to release Roberts and others from any claims.
In “mega-litigation” over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project, a judge has handballed an issue raised by Japanese oil company Inpex about damages calculations back to a referee.
Movie database giant IMDb has won a stoush with media company Zumedia, with IP Australia finding Zumedia’s ‘DMDb’ trade mark was likely to cause confusion.
The ATO has won its challenge to a finding that it waived privilege over draft expert reports in an email referring to its contents, with a court saying disclosure of the substance of information is not per se inconsistent with maintaining privilege.
HSBC has hit back at ASIC’s claims that it failed to protect customers from scams, denying it breached its legislative duties despite admitting some of the regulator’s allegations concerning its compliance with the ePayments code, a voluntary code of conduct.
The state of Victoria has sounded alarm bells about an amendment application by a class action over the COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, telling a judge it amounts to a new case with an “infinite number of permutations”.
Green iron start-up Element Zero has said it will fight Fortescue’s bid to access nearly nine million documents collected under a controversial search order in the mining giant’s case alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron.