Events

The Federal Government wants the High Court to weigh in on a landmark ruling last month that found food manufacturing giant Mondelez was short-changing its Tasmanian shift workers on their personal leave entitlements under the Fair Work Act.

The lead applicant in a class action by passengers of Scenic Tours luxury European river cruises who were forced to take the bus has partially won a bid for the High Court to hear an appeal of a mixed ruling on liability in the case.

The High Court has cleared the way for victims of a rubbish tip fire that tore through 17,000 acres of farmland in the NSW Riverina to claim more than $20 million in damages in a class action, after rejecting an appeal bid by the local council.

A five-judge panel of the Full Federal Court has found two innovation patents by financial software company Encompass Corp. are not a manner of manufacture, but held back on providing more clarity on the test for the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.

Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and Bristol Myers-Squibb are seeking to withdraw admissions in patent litigation against Generic Health over anti-psychotic drug Abilify, following a landmark ruling last year against Wyeth that clarified the issue of compensation under the usual undertaking for damages in pharmaceutical patent cases.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed an appeal against the Federal Court’s responsible lending ruling in favour of Westpac, arguing the decision had created uncertainty around the obligations of credit providers.

Hytera will take another shot at winning court approval to amend its defence so it can blame Motorola for not alerting it to the alleged theft of the US telco's source code by former employees sooner.

The Full Federal Court has dismissed Linfox’s $45 million fuel tax credit appeal, finding the Australian logistics company’s argument was ‘too weak or uncertain’ to conclude that it was being over-taxed on major toll roads across the country.

The High Court has done away with a rule that allowed self-represented lawyers to claim costs for legal proceedings, calling the exception an "affront to the fundamental value of equality of all persons before the law".

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has failed in its challenge to a ruling that dismissed its bid-rigging case over mining exploration licences involving Cascade Coal and the sons of jailed Labor politician Eddie Obeid.