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Online drug supplier Peptides Clinic hit with $10M fine for advertising breaches
A judge has slapped a $10 million fine on online supplement company Peptide Clinics for advertising prescription-only drugs in breach of the Therapeutic Goods Act.
$43.2M lease demand slashed after judge finds Dexus unreasonable
A judge overseeing a lease dispute in relation to a Brisbane CBD office tower has slashed a $43.2 million statutory demand against construction company Grocon by more than two thirds, finding property management firm Dexus was unreasonable to demand payment just two business days after issuing its invoices.
Pitcher Partners can’t escape $5.6M judgment over concealed accounting botch job
Pitcher Partners has lost it challenge to a ruling socking it with a $5.6 million bill for an accounting error concealed from client Neville's Bus Service, with an appeals court saying there was a "clear and principled basis" to require the accounting firm to pay the sum awarded for loss and damage to the transport company.
Judge urges Grant Thornton to consider Chinese wall in KPMG class action settlement
The settlement of the Discovery Metals investor class action against KPMG has experienced another setback, after scheme administrator Grant Thornton flagged a potential conflict of interest in acting as a costs contradictor over Piper Alderman’s controversial $3.5 million legal bill.
More than a ‘scintilla of inventiveness’: Motorola defends source code as Hytera trial kicks off
Patents at the centre of a high stakes IP dispute between tech giants Motorola and Hytera have significantly more than the necessary “scintilla of inventiveness” to be deemed valid, Motorola said on the first day of a month-long trial.
NSW Ports slams ACCC’s competition constraint claims as ‘slight or hypothetical’
NSW Ports Operations has denied claims that an agreement for the privatisation of its subsidiaries Port Botany and Port Kembla stymied competition, describing the allegations made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as "slight or hypothetical".
Ex-MP Emma Husar ‘very close’ to settling defamation case against Buzzfeed
Lawyers for media outlet Buzzfeed say they are “very close” to settling a defamation case brought by former Labor MP Emma Husar, over an article that accused her of sexual harassment and exposing herself in a manner made famous by Sharon Stone in the movie Basic Instinct.
Investors set to get 40% of settlement in class action against Westpac’s BankSA
Group members in a recently settled class action against Westpac unit BankSA over its conduct in connection with convicted Ponzi schemer Michael Samra are expected to get 40 per cent of the confidential settlement, a result a judge said wasn't as bad as he might have feared.
Jailed Healthzone CEO loses ‘armchair appeal’ of fraud conviction
The jailed former CEO of defunct health food business Healthzone has lost his appeal of a criminal conviction and sentence over a conspiracy to fraudulently use a $1 million company bank loan to repay personal debts.
Judge refuses ‘queue jumping’ request in Sirtex CEO insider trading case
An application by the former boss of Sirtex Medical for a sentencing date in the insider trading case against him has raised the ire of a NSW District Court judge, who called the bid premature and an attempt to jump the queue.