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The founder of whitegoods distributor Kleenmaid, who won a retrial after being sentenced to nine years for fraud and insolvent trading, will not spend any more time in jail after being resentenced by a judge who called him "a man of greed".
Journalist Tegan George will add sex discrimination claims against Network Ten to her lawsuit that alleges harassment and bullying by political journalist Peter van Onselen.
The Full Court has upheld two judgments that shortened patent term extensions granted to Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Ono Pharmaceuticals, finding the extension regime cannot be construed as achieving a "commercial outcome for a patentee".
American fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers has settled a trade mark dispute with a Queensland fast food business that operates "ghost kitchens" under the name In & Out Aussie Burgers.
A judge has slammed Novartis for putting forward four "overlapping" experts in a dispute with Pharmacor over patents for its MS drug Gilenya and thrown three of those experts out of an upcoming joint conferral, known as a "hot tub".
The Full Federal Court was emphatic in its decision that the environment minister does not owe a duty of care to Australian children to shield them from climate change harm, but there is no doubt the law will be put to the test again soon, says Corrs Chambers Westgarth's Louise Camenzuli, Julia Green and Max Newman.
The consumer regulator has initiated court proceedings alleging Facebook technology allowed scam cryptocurrency ads featuring celebrities to target susceptible users and that the social media giant failed to take adequate steps to remove them.
The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission has appointed former MinterEllison managing partner Annette Kimmitt as CEO after an “extensive” recruitment process, a year to the month after she was shown the door at the Big 6 firm for her controversial staff emails about a partner's work for then Attorney-General Christian Porter.
Online trading platform IronFX has won its action against the Australian Financial Complaints Authority over a finding it wrongfully caused an 83 year-old French resident to lose his life savings.
The High Court has found that three asset-based lenders behaved unconscionably when they enforced thir rights under a $1.2 million loan made to a vulnerable consumer secured by a mortgage over his properties.