A Federal Court judge on Friday called a request for particulars by Qantas “ridiculous”, during the first hearing in a case brought by mechanics alleging they weren’t pay allowances owed while working on assignment in Los Angeles.
A South Korean biotech company has filed an appeal with the Federal Court after an Ashurst partner succeeded in opposing the company’s proposed patent for a genome editing technology.
Crown Resorts has accused the NSW government of breaching its contractual obligations by “spruiking” to construction firms for development at central Barangaroo that would obstruct its views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.
Failed digital ad company Unlockd has until the end of the month to set out its competition case against Google or the suit will be thrown out.
Aurizon has won a request to view documents from Qube Holdings in the ACCC’s case alleging it reached an anti-competitive agreement with Pacific National for the sale of its intermodal freight business, as it pushes back against the competition regulator’s claim that there were other buyers vying for the business.
US tyre company Goodyear has dropped its challenge to a mixed trade mark ruling in its long-running dispute with UK-based rival Dunlop over coveted trade marks for ‘Dunlop’ and ‘Flying D’.
The High Court of Australia has rejected an appeal of a ruling that found a funeral insurer was liable for the use of a rival’s confidential information by employees and instead granted a cross-appeal that more than doubled the rival’s award of profits.
Liquidators for failed labour hire business One Key Workforce are disputing a claim by the CFMMEU for wages owed to employees, saying the money should be given to them while they wind up the company.
A lawyer for Geoffrey Rush told a judge Wednesday that the Sydney Theatre Company did not commence an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by Geoffrey Rush until 18 months after an actress made the complaint during a “off-the-record” conversation in a bar.
The fallout over the collapse of Alan Bond’s Bell Group of companies more than two decades ago rages on in the Federal Court, with the Australian Taxation Office in a battle for $744 million it claims is owed by the the now re-registered firms.