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A judge has rebuked the "procedural vulgarities" plaguing a referee's supplementary report in a class action against Toyota over allegedly defective vehicles and has called for the process to be simplified.
A judge has shot down an attempt by the publisher of the Australian Financial Review to permanently stay a defamation lawsuit brought by blockchain firm Power Ledger, after the media company claimed it had had failed to comply with discovery obligations.
A former portfolio manager of IOOF has sued the firm for discrimination and breaches of the Fair Work Act, alleging she was groped on the breasts by a high ranking senior executive on her wedding day.
A judge has shot down a bid by Nine, the ABC and a high-profile journalist to use articles reporting on Dr Chau Chak Wing's $280,000 defamation victory as evidence mitigating the harm to his reputation from a report at the centre of a separate defamation case.
A trade mark dispute between US oil giant Chevron and Australian petrol station operator Ampol has been set down for an expedited hearing in April, ahead of which the companies have been ordered into mediation.
At least five law firms are investigating lawsuits, including class action proceedings, in the wake of a landmark test case on COVID-19 exclusions for business interruption cover.
The Fair Work Commission has found a Bank of Queensland manager was unfairly dismissed despite making a "careless" mistake which led to a fraudster nabbing nearly $40,000 of a customer's money.
Pfizer unit Wyeth is seeking to overturn part of a judge's decision in its high-stakes patent dispute with Merck Sharp & Dohme that found claims in two of its patents relating to the blockbuster Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine were invalid.
Macquarie Bank has been ordered to fork out $330,000 to dozens of former advisers for a "defective and deficient" system which saw the bank fail to pay a raft of employment entitlements.
A judge has told a unit of US energy giant Chevron Corporation to consider narrowing its trade mark dispute against Australian petrol station operator Ampol, as the parties consider whether to take the matter to an expedited hearing.