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Atanaskovic Hartnell has mostly come up short in a court battle for over $172,000 in legal fees, with a judge finding the law firm was in a "manifest position of conflict" in its dispute with two media companies defrauded by one of its former lawyers, Brody Clarke.
AFT Pharmaceuticals has lost its challenge to a ruling that ads claiming its painkiller Maxigesic is more effective than Nuremol were misleading and deceptive, with the Full Federal Court saying the primary judge did not err in finding the ads lacked an adequate scientific basis.
The property developers behind two Canberra apartment complexes have been dealt a partial loss in two class actions against them, with a judge finding the developers misled the lead applicants about the GST payable on their units but that only some of them were entitled to compensation or restitution.
AFT Pharmaceuticals has challenged a Federal Court decision that found its Maxisegic ads were misleading and deceptive, saying the judge "set the bar too high" by requiring it to prove there was an adequate scientific foundation for its painkiller representations.
A judge who hit Pitcher Partners with a $5.6 million damages ruling over an accounting error concealed from corporate client Neville's Bus Service was wrong to hold that the transport operator's losses flowing from the error were real, the firm has argued.
AFT Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a court order temporarily restraining it from distributing point of sale material containing updated claims that its painkiller Maxigesic is more effective than other over-the-counter medications.
Pitcher Partners just found another reason to challenge a ruling that it owes $5.6 million in damages for concealing an accounting error from a client -- a ruling that socks it with $3.3 million in legal costs for its "deceit".
Accounting firm Pitcher Partners will challenge a ruling that it owes a NSW bus operator $5.6 million in damages for fraudulently concealing a costly amortisation error.
Accounting firm Pitcher Partners has been ordered to pay more than $5.6 million in damages for fraudulently concealing an amortisation error that caused a well-known bus operator to face higher than expected costs in a NSW transport tender.
Consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser is seeking more information after advertisements for rival AFT Pharmaceuticals' Maxigesic painkiller were found in-store and online despite the court ordering the removal of the misleading displays earlier this month.