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A costs report in a settled class action against Woolworths that recommended almost $800,000 in legal fee deductions failed to wrestle with a key factor in weighing the proportionality of the costs, a judge has said.
The man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami has been ordered to pay $275,000 in damages to Tolga Kumova, after a judge found his tweets defamed the mining investor by accusing him of insider trading, misleading the market, and running a pump and dump scheme.
Lawyers for respondents in defamation litigation have been put on notice for their practice of tossing defences around like grenades in armed combat -- it isn't going to fly any more, warns a judge whose docket is stacked with high profile cases.
Retail giant Harvey Norman and consumer credit provider Latitude Finance have hit back at ASIC claims that they ran misleading ads for interest-free finance, saying reasonable consumers would have known additional conditions were laid out in the ads' fine print.
A judge has approved a settlement in a class action against Queensland-based RMS Engineering and Construction alleging it refused to give staff meal breaks and threatened those who complained about excessive hours.
Car repair giant AMA Group has filed yet another lawsuit against ousted CEO Andrew Hopkins, this time seeking to block him and other senior executives from poaching staff and customers for a competing smash repair business.
The University of Sydney has appealed a judgment finding it unlawfully terminated a political economy lecturer for showing students a slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag.
A unit of beverage giant Bickford’s has taken Spanish-Australian chef Miguel Maestre to court for allegedly infringing its trade mark by selling beer under the ‘El Toro Loco’ brand.
A former director of Spaceship Capital Limited has succeeded in overturning a banning order imposed by ASIC, with a tribunal finding he may have been kept in the dark about the software bug that led to the ban.
A judge has found Shenzhen-based based radio manufacturer Hytera engaged in "substantial industrial theft" by appropriating Motorola's source code for its digital mobile radios and should be on the hook for additional damages for "flagrantly" infringing Motorola's copyright.