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A judge has raised concerns that lengthy expert reports filed by AUSTRAC and Entain in the regulator’s AML/CTF case have strayed into expressing “positively unhelpful” opinions.
The liquidators of a subsidiary of collapsed media company Big Un have lost their case against financier First Class Capital alleging a three million share purchase was part of a scheme to inflate the company's stock price.
A judge has expressed concerns about plans to cross-examine consumer witnesses in the ACCC's subscriptions trap case against meal delivery companies HelloFresh and YouFoodz, saying they "shouldn't be put through that".
Discount grocery giant Aldi has partially succeeded on appeal of a finding that its Mamia Baby Puffs copied the look of rival Little Bellies baby snacks, but still faces possible additional damages for what a judge said was "flagrant" infringement.
Fashion retailer City Beach has lost an appeal of a $14 million penalty secured by the consumer regulator in the first enforcement action for breaches of button battery safety standards.
"Quite unsatisfactory", is how a judge has described a revived intellectual property dispute between German drug maker Merck KGaA and US drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme over the alleged use of the ‘Merck’ mark in Australia.
The applicants in class actions over alleged engine defects in Hyundai and Kia vehicles can file amended cases, over the objections of the car makers, which claim the new pleadings are "worse" despite millions of dollars having been spent on discovery.
A judge has allowed a "painfully slow" competition class action against Sony over its PlayStation store practices to file an amended pleading, after expressing concerns the case was not properly resourced.
A class action accusing Sony of breaching competition laws has said proposed changes to the case will focus on excessive charges in the distribution market, but the electronics giant argues the amended case leaves causation "entirely unarticulated".
Three years after filing, the class actions against Hyundai and Kia are trying to pinpoint the defect at the heart of the cases, with the car manufacturers complaining that the newest pleading, which seeks to expand the claims to include an additional 380,000 vehicles, is still missing key details.