A judge has consolidated two cases in the Federal Court in which beverage maker Bickford’s is defending its ‘Spritz’ trade mark against bids for cancellation.
A judge has OK’d a settlement in a class action against Treasury Wine Estates, along with $27 million in fees charged by Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon, after initially questioning the difference between the firms’ rates.
A judge has approved a bid by administrators of Rex to delay the next creditors’ meeting to continue talks with several potential buyers of the regional airline.
A judge has recused himself from hearing a class action against Fletcher Building, and has imposed a ban on presiding over any cases involving Maurice Blackburn for a period of time.
A judge has kept intact a lead applicant’s award of damages in a class action over alleged defective Ford vehicles, following a High Court decision, siding with neither party on what the figure should be.
The funder of a failed class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and EY and has been hit with costs, despite arguing the order would set a bad precedent.
US-based analytics company CoreLogic has lost its bid for further particulars in building information provider BCI’s case alleging it scraped content from its LeadManager platform to improve a competing product and procure customers.
A Queensland tribunal has refused to set aside a costs agreement between Shine Lawyers and a former client, despite invoices blowing out to more than six times the original estimate, finding the matter had already been dealt with in a costs assessment.
Carpet giant Godfrey Hirst has brought proceedings against its former general counsel and former law firm Piper Alderman, alleging they were involved in a scheme to give confidential information to a rival
The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower.