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A former employment law partner at a national Australian law firm is suing her former employer for sex discrimination, after her original complaint was thrown out by the Human Rights Commission.
A judge has scheduled a three-week trial to begin November 4 in a case brought by the corporate regulator against two directors of Tennis Australia over broadcast rights to the Australian Open, despite argument by a lawyer for one director that the timetable was "extremely tight".
Chemicals giant BASF has dragged an Australian pest control company to court for allegedly violating its patent for an underground termite control system.
Facebook and Instagram will defend against claims they misused their market power to block an Australian marketing startup from their platforms, saying the company - which sends scheduled social media posts for clients -- had breached their terms of use.
Potential new entrants to a major freight terminal in Queensland will be "better protected" by a last-minute promise by the terminal's hopeful owner, Pacific National, than if the ACCC had succeeded in blocking the rail operator's proposed $205 million acquisition, according to the judge who dismissed the competition watchdog's case.
A judge has raised serious concerns about the proposed commission by the funder behind a $90 million sham contracting class action against fundraiser Appco, slamming as "intuitively wrong" an arrangment that could leave group members pocketing less than half of any recovery.
Melbourne-based civic compliance firm SARB Management Group wants to put the brakes on a case brought by tech company Vehicle Monitoring Systems over a patented method for detecting vehicles, in a dispute it says was finalised in a settlement reached almost five years ago.
The applicants in the Iluka Resources investor class action have just 14 days to sort out their funding troubles and provide a $1.25 million security, as a judge warns he will not be able to hold their trial date any longer.
Mining firm MACH Energy may move to strike out "inconsistent" pleadings in a $20 million lawsuit brought by its former managing director, Scott Winter, whose discovery delays have raised the ire of the judge hearing the case.
The High Court has agreed to take up an appeal by mining giant BHP Group Limited in its battle with the Australian Tax Office over an $82M tax bill.