Judgment

Zip Co will have to rebrand after losing a challenge to non-bank lender Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark, with the High Court finding the honest concurrent use is to be judged by the standards of “ordinary, decent people”, not a subjective “Robin Hood” test. 

Builder Watpac can't block a 67-year-old employee from pursuing a Fair Work Commission challenge to his employer's denial of his request to work four days a week so that he can spend time writing.

A unit of spirits maker Pernod Ricard has lost its opposition to rival Sazerac's bid to register 'Stagg' as a trade mark for a whiskey brand, with an IP Australia delegate finding the mark was not deceptively similar to Pernod Ricard's 'Royal Stag' mark. 

A funder bankrolling proceedings over the compulsory acquisition of land for the Westconnex road project in Sydney has lost its bid to revive a lawsuit against the plaintiffs, with an appeals court saying it was a “classic example of abuse of process”.

Shell’s Australian arm has succeeded in challenging a finding by the ATO that it needed to pay an additional $99 million in capital gains tax after it disposed of its 34.27 per cent holding in Woodside Petroleum.

A former United Global Capital financial adviser who was banned from registering as financial adviser for two years has been hit with a three-year ban following an unsuccessful review to the Administrative Review Tribunal. 

AkzoNobel has lost its bid to add new expert evidence after the conclusion of trial in a dispute with Inpex over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.

Tronox has won its case against former employee who was found to have published confidential information on LinkedIn, with the employee also losing a recusal application that cited the judge’s Indigenous heritage.

The corporate watchdog’s first case under internal dispute resolution regulations has had mixed results, with a court finding compliance failures by Telstra Super but no under-resourcing.

A union has lost an appeal of a decision which found packaging company Opal Packaging was allowed to reintroduce drug and alcohol testing of staff under a new methodology while a union challenge was on foot.