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Payments provider Tyro is facing two potential class actions over a days-long terminal outage that left many businesses unable to accept payments, the first of which is expected to be filed "imminently".
When Johnson Winter & Slattery’s George Croft is asked what he loves about working for clients in the energy and resources sectors, the tangible nature of the field with its deep rumbling ore crushers and haulage trains kilometres long really brings out his excitement.
Kraft has agreed to pay Bega $9.25 million as part of a settlement resolving a long-running battle over peanut butter trade dress rights, after the US consumer goods giant exhausted all its options for appealing a ruling that found Bega had acquired the rights to the trade dress.
Failed vocational education provider Phoenix Institute has taken three of its former directors to court claiming they breached the Corporations Act in the lead-up to its collapse and should compensate the company.
A judge has given Generic Health more time to file its evidence in a multimillion-dollar dispute with drug makers Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibbs over the delayed launch of generic versions of their antipsychotic drug Abilify, but warned there had to be a cut-off point for preparing the decade-long dispute for trial.
Global resources giant BHP Group has lost an appeal in its fight to exclude foreign investors from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster, after arguing the class action regime applies only to those in Australia.
A refugee activist has hit back at a defamation lawsuit brought by Peter Dutton over a tweet calling the defence minister a “rape apologist”, saying it was fair comment on Dutton’s response to the issue of sexual violence in Australia and offshore detention centres.
SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has lost a bid to shield his medical records from three publishers less than a week before his high-profile defamation case kicks off in the Federal Court.
The judge overseeing a conflicted remuneration class action against Suncorp has locked in a trial date for May next year over the protests of the applicants, saying it was "not a good look" for class actions to "hang" around.
Furniture retailer Nick Scali Ltd must respond to subpeonas served by law firm Sparke Helmore seeking files held by the company's new firm, Allens, in a case over $500,000 in unpaid fees that alleges CEO Anthony Scali knowingly gave false instructions to his solicitors.