Barristers

A judge has awarded investment firm Merricks Capital $46 million in its lawsuit against tech entrepreneur Peter Crown and his wife over a loan to purchase land in the Southern Highlands.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to temporararily block developer Clarence Property from building artificial frog ponds in Brunswick Heads as part of a 123-lot residential development.

Two law firms will battle for carriage of a shareholder class action against hearing device manufacturer Cochlear, a court has heard. 

In a change of heart, a judge has appointed two barristers to act as contradictors in argument over the funder's proposed $244 million cut of a record $750 million settlement in two Toyota class actions.

Closing its case against non-alcoholic beverage maker Noot, Bickford’s has told a judge that descriptive words can constitute trade mark use when they are used to evoke a feeling or mood.

Cipla Australia wants an undertaking it intends to give pharma company Actelion over plans to launch a generic version of a blood pressure drug to be shielded from rivals Arrotex, Nova Pharmaceuticals and MSN Laboratories, as those companies battle patent infringement claims. 

The High Court has been asked to revive a class action brought by a postgrad student who alleges the research stipend he received from Sydney University was less than minimum wage.

The Victorian government is seeking summary dismissal of a class action alleging government curfews put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic were unlawful, arguing the case was filed out of time.

Hearing a fight over $40 million in costs in a case over the sale of Dexus shares in Australia Pacific Airport Corporation, a judge has said he doubts the airport operator can recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on a media consultant during the dispute.

The maker of the popular Maxi-Cosi line of child car seats has lost its opposition to a rival's patent for a child car seat designed to reduce the risk of the safety tether breaking in a crash.