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Directed Electronics seeks $18M from Isuzu for alleged contract, copyright breaches
Intellectual Property 2020-08-18 11:34 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Australian auto electronics company Directed Electronics is seeking at least $18 million from truck company Isuzu for allegedly breaching a contract for the supply of a new audio visual unit and aiding a former employee’s alleged theft of company information.

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Nine hit with defamation suit over ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ report that led to prison attack
Defamation 2020-08-18 6:04 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A convicted drug smuggler is suing Channel Nine over a segment on A Current Affair that accused him of being a police informer and which a judge branded as “dangerous and irresponsible reporting” after he was attacked in prison.

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Union threatens ‘wave of class actions’ against universities for underpayments
Education 2020-08-18 2:24 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The National Tertiary Education Union has launched a class action investigation against Australia’s universities for alleged wage theft, the latest sector to be engulfed by the country’s underpayments scandal.

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Facebook, Google hit with class action over cryptocurrency ad ban
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-08-18 2:12 pm By Alison Eveleigh

Facebook and Google have been hit with a class action alleging their 2018 decisions to ban advertising of cryptocurrencies breached competition laws.

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Class action launched against Melbourne aged care home at centre of COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19 2020-08-18 12:22 pm By Alison Eveleigh

The son of a 92-year-old woman who died after she contracted COVID-19 at a Melbourne aged care home has launched a class action against the residential facility, claiming damages for stress and anxiety caused by his mother’s death.

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Ex-Qantas worker tries again to bring discrimination case against Maurice Blackburn
Appeals 2020-08-18 12:15 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A former Qantas customer service manager has appealed a ruling blocking her from pursuing a disability discrimination case against Maurice Blackburn alleging the law firm put pressure on her to settle her workers compensation case against the airline.

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Insurers dragged into Gunns plantation class action
Class Actions 2020-08-17 3:15 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Two insurance companies have been joined as respondents to a class action against forestry giant Gunns over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania.

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Judge winds up unregistered Askk land banking scheme that raised $11M
ASIC 2020-08-17 2:13 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has ordered the winding up of Askk Investment Group and the unregistered managed investment scheme it operated in Beveridge, Victoria, that raised more than $11 million from investors.

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Procter & Gamble drops spat with Colgate-Palmolive over whitening toothpaste ads
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-08-17 1:32 pm By Christine Caulfield

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble has dropped a lawsuit accusing competitor Colgate-Palmolive of breaching consumer laws by making false claims about the performance of its whitening toothpaste that threatened to push its own brand of whitener off the shelves.

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Crown class action lawyers to seek priority status as COVID-19 lockdown makes trial prep ‘impossible’
Class Actions 2020-08-14 11:04 pm By Christine Caulfield

The lead applicant in a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts will ask the Federal Court to declare the proceedings a priority matter so that lawyers readying the case for an upcoming trial in Melbourne can access childcare despite stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria.

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