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Wagners wins appeal in multi-million dollar cement supply dispute with Boral
Building products supplier Wagners has successfully challenged a Queensland Supreme Court judgment ruling in favour of Boral in a high-stakes cement supply dispute between the construction giants.
‘Lawyers hate losing control’: Toyota class action referee process rankles judge
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.
KPMG lures NewLaw ace for digitisation push
KPMG Law has snagged a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner and NewLaw expert to lead its recently formed legal operations transformation services team, which the firm says has already delivered more than US$200 million in savings to in-house legal teams.
ACCC mulls legal action after Google completes $3B FitBit acquisition
The ACCC is considering taking legal action against Google after the search giant completed its $3 billion acquisition of fitness device company FitBit before the consumer watchdog could finish its investigation into the transaction.
Blockchain firm founder beats back AFR’s bid to nix defamation case
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.
Clayton Utz teams up with funder ICP for business interruption insurance class action
Law firm Clayton Utz and litigation funder Investor Claim Partners have joined forces to bring a class action against insurers who have denied business interruption claims by business impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior IOOF executive accused of sexually harassing employee at her wedding
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.
News of Chau Chak Wing’s defamation win can’t be used by publishers in defence of reputation damage
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.
Wyeth seeks total victory in vaccine patent battle with Merck Sharp & Dohme
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’s ‘defective’ payment system should have rung alarm bells, judge says
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.