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Drink rivals mull High Court appeals after losing ‘Mother’ of all trade mark disputes
The owners of Mother energy drinks and Vittoria Food & Beverage have both lost their challenges to each other's 'Motherland' and 'Mothersky' trade marks and are considering taking the long-running stoush to the High Court. 
ACCC loses appeal in ‘fanciful’ NSW Ports competition case
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has lost its challenge to a decision that tossed its case alleging NSW Ports stymied competition when it signed a 50-year agreement with the state to privatise two ports. 
‘Distinctly bizarre’: Costs, commission send lead applicant packing in oil spill class action
The law firm running the Montara oil spill class action, which has settled for $192.5 million, is looking for a new lead applicant after the first one defected over concerns group members would lose half the settlement amount to legal costs and a funding commission.
ClearLoans agrees to $6M penalty in ASIC’s first COVID-19 case against lender
Personal lender ClearLoans and its parent company have agreed to pay penalties of just over $6 million to settle the first COVID-19 related case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Google defeats ACCC case over data collection
The ACCC has lost proceedings accusing Google of duping millions of Australians into agreeing to expand the scope of personal information the tech giant could collect and combine for use in targeted advertising. 
Oil spill class action funder drops injunction bid against barrister
A litigation funder has abandoned its case seeking to prevent counsel retained by the lead applicant in the settled Montara oil spill class action from providing independent legal advice.
Corelogic again seeks to block copyright case over data scraping
Property data analytics firm CoreLogic is taking aim again at a lawsuit accusing it of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, months after a judge found the case was “defective and deficient".
CBA’s former boss Ian Narev grilled over internal audits 4 years before AUSTRAC action
The former chief executive of Commonwealth Bank has told a court internal auditors raised issues with CBA's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance four years before AUSTRAC took action that saw the bank's share price plummet.
CBA says disclosing money laundering failures would have misled the market
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has argued that disclosing its money laundering failures before AUSTRAC brought proceedings would have misled the market, as the bank takes the rare move of defending a shareholder class action at trial.
Trial pokes holes in CBA’s claim of ‘cordial’ relationship with AUSTRAC
While CBA's defence to a shareholder class action argues the bank did not need to disclose money laundering failures because it doubted AUSTRAC would take legal action, communications show it was drafting a defence six months before proceedings started, a trial has heard.