The High Court has agreed to hear an Australian fashion designer’s appeal in a long-running trade mark dispute with pop star Katy Perry.
The funder behind a class action against Transport for NSW over the $16 billion WestConnex project has lost another appeal in its ongoing spat with the lead applicants.
A franchisee class action against TeleChoice, which sought to share in commissions won in separate litigation against Optus, is in settlement talks, but the mobile retailer says the plaintiffs can’t expect much.
An appeals court has rejected Dexus’ challenge to a finding that it must sell its 50 per cent stake in Sydney’s largest suburban shopping centre to Macquarie Retail, saying its arguments contradicted the “evident commercial purpose” of the contracts at issue.
Applicants in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over alleged defective braking will pay the car manufacturers’ costs incurred for abandoned appeals, despite arguing the appeals were overtaken by subsequent events.
The state of Victoria can’t set aside a liquidator’s disclaimer over hazardous waste in a property rented by collapsed marine safety flooring company Fordex, with a judge finding the landlord’s rights over the property and waste were not terminated by the disclaimer.
The litigation funder behind a class action against engineering firm CIMIC took a $4.7 million hit to its commission from a settlement after a dispute with the plaintiff’s law firm, according to a decision published Friday.
A group of Australia’s leading beef and dairy companies has failed to strike-out a suit alleging their genetic testing system for cattle infringes the patent of a US genomics company, with a judge rejecting objections to the phrase ‘further or in the alternative’.
Advisory firm Perpetual has lost its bid for an injunction against a former senior advisor after 22 of his long-time clients tried to follow him to a rival firm.
Granting an appeal by native title holders, the High Court has found that a ‘connection’ with relevant land need not be demonstrated by physical acts.