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Solicitor who had sex with firm employee found not guilty of misconduct
Legal Ethics 2025-02-19 11:25 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A solicitor who had an affair with a law firm employee and then fired her did not engage in misconduct, a tribunal has found.

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Salter Brothers defeats clients’ suits over ‘misleading’ visa investment fund
Financial Services 2025-02-19 3:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has dismissed lawsuits brought by three former Salter Brothers clients alleging they were misled about an investment fund marketed as part of a visa program to migrate to Australia.

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Ivy League university can’t block lawyer’s ‘Harvard Legal’ trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-02-19 12:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Harvard University has lost its opposition to a law firm’s bid to register ‘Harvard Legal’ as a trade mark.

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Accolade Wines wins spat with Pernod Ricard over business sale deal
Corporate 2025-02-19 11:38 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Wine producer Accolade has won a dispute with Pernod Ricard over interim arrangements to distribute wine after it bought the French winemaker’s Australian and New Zealand businesses.

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Melbourne law firm wins bid to declass group proceeding over legal advice
Class Actions 2025-02-18 5:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has stripped a group proceeding against a Melbourne law firm of class action status, finding each of the firm’s 700 clients had “factually discrete” claims. 

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FWC blocks Sydney Trains’ bid to stop industrial action
Employment 2025-02-17 2:36 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Sydney Trains has lost its bid to block train crew from engaging in industrial action, with the Fair Work Commission rejecting claims that hundreds of employee absences on Friday were part of a “covert campaign”.

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Meriton faces $123M claim over Sydney North Shore apartments
Construction 2025-02-18 5:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Owners at the Alcove development in Sydney’s North Shore have been given the green light to expand their case against the Meriton-owned builders to claim $123 million in damages for alleged systemic defects. 

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Mirvac wins dispute over licence for Birkenhead luxury outlet shop
Real Estate 2025-02-18 5:23 pm By Sam Matthews

Property developer Mirvac has won a $220,000 dispute against designer outlet store Estro over unpaid licence fees and charges under a commercial lease for a store at Sydney’s Birkenhead Point.

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Cantarella loses bid to revive ‘Oro’ trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-02-14 11:43 pm By Andy Sidler

The Full Court has poured cold water on Vittoria Cantarella’s hopes of reviving its ‘Oro’ trade marks, finding a judge did not err in concluding the marks were already used by another coffee maker.

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Seven, reporter win strike-out bid in AFL player’s defamation case
Defamation 2025-02-14 11:12 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Seven can strike out part of West Coast Eagles player Jack Darling’s suit alleging it was the ‘publisher’ of allegedly defamatory articles in The West Australian that accused him of being anti-vax.

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