A Bechtel worker who claims his genitals were groped by a male employee and that the construction giant discriminated against him by failing to take the same-sex harassment seriously has sought documents from an internal investigation by Ashurst into the matter.
A patent for genome editing technology by a South Korean biotechnology company has been rejected for a lack of clarity, novelty, and inventiveness, but the Australian Patent Office has given the company two months to try again.
BMW Australia plans to challenge the NSW Supreme Court’s power to create a common fund order spanning six class actions brought against major players in the automotive industry over defective and dangerous Takata air bags.
Animal drug giant Merial is pushing on with its opposition to rival Intervet’s bid to a patent a non-drug resistant injectable formula for treating animal parasites, filing an appeal in the Federal Court after it came up short in its challenge before IP Australia.
Geoffrey Rush’s legal team plans to question his King Lear co-star over a break-up with her partner, arguing the actress at the centre of a defamation case might have been distressed by the relationship split, not by any allegedly inappropriate behaviour by the Oscar-winning actor.
A court has struck out defamation claims brought by embattled Quintis founder Frank Wilson against the company’s former directors over ASX statements he alleges suggested he knew about the company’s termination of a supply contract with Nestle’s dermatology unit, Galderma Laboratories.
Discount supermarket chain Aldi offered $150,000 to end a lawsuit brought by the maker of the popular MoroccanOil line of hair products, a court judgment revealed Tuesday.
Six major car companies indicated Tuesday they were open to a quick settlement of class actions brought on behalf of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australian drivers whose cars were fitted with defective and deadly Takata airbags.
The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more criminal matters expected to be brought by the end of the year.
A $3 million settlement in the shareholder class action against the directors of failed mining company Kagara has been approved, with a Federal Court judge saying the amount is fair and reasonable despite two-thirds of it going to the lawyers and funder that brought the case.