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High Court won’t hear law firm partner’s fight with ATO over exit payments
The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm's partnership.
Samsung Bioepis takes aim at patents for eye disease biosimilar
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued to invalidate two patents held by a German competitor for a pre-filled syringe to treat age-related eye diseases, as generic drug makers race for a piece of the lucrative eye drug market.
India appeals judgment on $111.3M arbitral award
The Indian government has lodged an appeal after a judge found it can't avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites.
‘Improper and delinquent’: Lawyer personally hit with costs of ‘doomed’ case
A Sydney lawyer has been ordered to pay the costs of a property dispute after a judge found his conduct meant the case was “doomed to fail” and caused the costs of the litigation to be wasted.
FleetPartners hit with shareholder class action
Fleet management company FleetPartners has been stung with a shareholder class action over a revised 2019 earnings guidance that doomed its planned merger with McMillan Shakespeare.
ASIC sues TelstraSuper in first case over dispute resolution rules
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed its first-ever case over internal dispute resolution regulations, targeting Telstra Super over its handling of customer complaints.
OAIC takes Australian Clinical Labs to court over data breach
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has brought civil penalty proceedings accusing pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs of failing to take steps to prevent a February 2022 data breach that affected millions of patients.
Court rejects human rights group’s bid to repatriate Aussies detained in Syria
A human rights group has lost its legal bid to compel the federal government to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian camps, with a a judge finding the Minister for Home Affairs has “no control” over their detention.
Sydney jeweller harassed employee by confessing romantic feelings, court finds
The owner of a small jewellery retailer in central Sydney must pay a younger female employee $237,985 for sexual harassment after he slapped her on the buttocks and confessed romantic feelings for her, a judge has found.
Judge up for costs in false imprisonment case, but not for abandoned expert
A man awarded $300,000 after he was unlawfully imprisoned for contempt has won his legal costs from the judge who jailed him. But a court has rejected his bid to recoup the costs paid to a damages expert in his case, finding he gave her “incomplete, inaccurate and unreliable” instructions.