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IOOF subsidiary Australian Executor Trustees failed to drag law firm Sparke Helmore into a case after it was hit with a $76.6 million judgment over breaches of duty in the sale of a 42,000 hectare timber plantation by collapsed forestry giant Gunns Group.
Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram are pushing for a competition dispute brought by an Australian social media startup to be heard on their home turf in the state of California.
A Queensland activist group has come up trumps in a drawn-out legal battle against New Acland Coal's proposed expansion of a coal mine, with the High Court striking down previous lower court rulings giving it the green light.
A group of women harmed by pelvic mesh devices produced by Johnson & Johnson have accused it of persisting with a "wreckage" of a case in which one of its own doctors admitted the pharmaceutical company knew of the risks posed by the implants at they time they were sold worldwide.
The High Court has dismissed an appeal by Westpac challenging a ruling that found the bank breached its duties to customers by providing personal financial advice as part of a telephone campaign encouraging customers to roll over external superannuation accounts.
The Full Federal Court has granted a limited appeal in the Kingdom of Spain's challenge to a judgment enforcing a $375 million arbitration award over two renewable energy investments, ordering a redrafting of the primary judge's orders but rejecting claims that Spain was immune as a foreign state from enforcement of the award.
Race car driver and former owner of the famed Byron Bay Hotel, Max Twigg, has launched an appeal of a ruling that he misappropriated around $100 million in family trust money and took steps to conceal the transfer of funds from his mother.
Monster Energy, which makes Mother brand energy drinks, has appealed a ruling from IP Australia that granted rival caffeinated beverage maker Vittoria Food & Beverage's application for the removal of Monster's 'Motherland' trade mark for non-use.
The judge who found J&J's pelvic mesh implants defective in a high stakes class action ruling mde a "pervasive error" in disregarding the knowledge and views of the applicants' doctors, an appeals court has heard.
The Federal Court has once again sided with the Commissioner of Patents in a challenge to a ruling that patents for a computer-implemented invention did not describe a manner of manufacture and should be revoked.