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A court has found that an employee of a custom keycap business breached her fiduciary duties and infringed the company's copyright when she launched a competing business using unlawfully downloaded company templates.
The lead applicant in a failed class action against ex-NAB super trustee NULIS Nominees has lost his bid to stay a costs order of some $12.5 million pending an appeal.
A judge won't dismiss a $328 million case brought against the government of East Timor by oil company Lighthouse Corporation despite a long history of delays and non-compliance with court orders.
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The owner of an Engadine site being developed into an apartment complex has been sued by the project's builder, who seeks over $2 million in allegedly unpaid progress payments as well as damages for breach of contract.
ASIC has expanded its case alleging HSBC failed to protect customers from scams, revealing a compliance manager at the bank had found that teams tasked with monitoring unauthorised transactions “had no understanding” of the liability provisions in the ePayments Code.
A judge has thrown out a notice to produce issued by an Australian company being targeted by UK genomic sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies, calling its bid for board minutes and other documents a “fishing expedition”.
The judge overseeing two competing class actions against Google has issued a warning to law firms that agree to team up and work on a class action together, saying that in other markets such arrangements might be viewed as “something akin to a cartel”.
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The owners corporation suing Parkview Construction over alleged combustible cladding at the Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park is “hopeful” of a settlement being reached, a court has heard on the eve of trial.
ASIC has succeeded in overturning a decision that found that Qoin issuer BPS Financial came within the authorised representative exemption with respect to agreements with Australian financial services licence holder PNI.
The judge hearing the ACCC’s price-fixing case against Downer EDI's Spotless and Ventia has proposed an initial hearing to determine if the companies are in competition, saying he won't let the case become “totally unwieldy”.