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Bega Cheese has presuaded a court to allow a partner from Addisons Lawyers to access select confidential documents, expanding the confidentiality regime at the heart of its dispute with Fonterra Brands over an allegedly violated trade mark licence agreement.
Litigation funder Litigation Capital Management will snap up 30 percent of a confidential settlement amount that KPMG has fought to keep under wraps in a shareholder class action over a failed $830 million hostile takeover bid of mining firm Discovery Metals.
A judge has agreed to postpone a trial against logistics provider GetSwift until next year when a class action and a lawsuit by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission related to the company's disclosures will be heard consecutively rather than concurrently.
La Trobe University has retained big six law firm Clayton Utz to represent it in legal action brought by the head of its law school after he was suspended over complaints of bullying by two other professors, who have asked the court for suppression orders in the case.
A judge overseeing three toxic foam class actions against the Commonwealth of Australia has said he's not comfortable approving a common fund order which does not detail specific remuneration amounts for funder IMF Bentham.
Lawyers for a class action against the Federal Government-owned Airservices told a court Tuesday that higher salaries on individually negotiated management contracts did not leave managers better off than they would have been under relevant collective enterprise agreements.
A settlement has been reached in a class action against KPMG alleging it providing a misleading expert report to copper miner Discovery Metals that was used to reject a $830 million hostile takeover bid.
The trustee of the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust wants more details about an ecological landscaper's allegation that it breached its duty of care by failing to make adequate disclosures about climate change risks.
Judgment is expected next week in the closely watched defamation suit brought by actor Geoffrey Rush against Nationwide News, with the ruling expected to generate considerable attention amid a spate of recent high-dollar awards in defamation cases and as the country embarks on an ambitious overhaul of its defamation laws.
A class action against Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon over allegedly faulty pelvic mesh implants is once more vying for an expanded group definition ahead of settlement talks as the clock ticks down to judgment.