Judgment

V2food, the CSIRO-backed start-up behind Hungry Jack's plant-based 'Rebel Whopper', has lost its bid to patent a product that changes colour when cooked in order to imitate the “meat experience”.

A tribunal has found Deloitte’s cost-benefit analysis on new energy efficiency standards is protected from disclosure under Freedom of Information laws because it contains trade secrets.

A former BHP Coal employee has lost his unfair dismissal case, with the Fair Work Commission finding  his conduct in throwing a mug and threatening a co-worker was a valid reason for dismissal. 

A court has slapped Qoin cryptocurrency issuer BPS Financial with a $14 million penalty for “serious and unlawful misconduct”, including making misleading statements about the product and providing financial advice without a license.

A judge has set aside a tribunal’s refusal of a developer’s application to build a retirement village on land owned by the Federal Golf Club in Canberra. 

The declaration of Melbourne’s CBD as a location permitting random searches was “incompatible with human rights”, a judge found Friday, although she tossed a related constitutional challenge.

In the first of dozens of similar cases to be decided, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found Uber breached its contract with a driver by deactivating his account over seven complaints.

A Hong Kong company has won its bid to claw back funds from the family of a deceased debtor who transferred a Sydney property to his wife as part of a purported separation agreement, with a court finding the transaction was intended to defraud creditors.

The mayor of a Perth local council has been awarded $250,000 in damages for defamation against a constituent who made a series of Facebook posts falsely alleging that he was misusing a public office.

A court has largely set aside examination orders against executives and solicitors for oil and gas company Moreton Resources and MRV Metals, finding they were an abuse of process.