Ethicon told the Full Federal Court on Monday that the judge overseeing the marathon class action against it over allegedly defective vaginal mesh devices got it wrong when she reset the dates for inclusion in the class.
McDonald’s has agreed to change its Corner Cafe logo, after the famed Corner Hotel in Melbourne filed a lawsuit claiming the global food giant’s new hipster cafe violates its trade marks.
Supermarket dessert maker Wicked Sister has brought a trade mark infringement suit against the maker of dipping sauces that this year launched a dessert it branded Wicked Waffle Dippers.
The country’s biggest law firms were among the first in line to weigh in on changes to the class action regime proposed by the Australian Law Reform Commission, with one global firm cautioning against a weakening of continuous disclosure laws.
The litigation funder underwriting a class action against Myer will have to fork over another $950,000 in security ahead of what will be a rare shareholder trial starting next Wednesday, a court has ruled.
A judge has denied ASIC’s bid to appoint an interim receiver to preserve the assets of three financial services companies that advised clients to invest in complex derivatives, which ASIC is seeking to have wound up for alleged violations of the Corporations Act.
AMP has hit back against claims in the first of multiple class actions it faces, saying its practice of charging fees for no service did not warrant disclosure to shareholders. And despite sacking its GC for the extent of his exchanges with Clayton Utz over a report into the practice, the company now says the number of interactions was exaggerated.
The Federal Court has dismissed an application by tax lawyer Michael Binetter and his wife Suzanne Binetter to dip into over $3 million in frozen assets to fund a case over an alleged $120 million international tax evasion scheme.
UK-based building products giant Hill & Smith Holdings has launched a Federal Court case accusing an Australian company, whose directors are ex-employees, of selling road safety barriers that infringe one of its patents.
Investors in the failed Gold Coast finance group Octaviar are challenging a decision throwing out their class action, which alleged the Public Trustee of Queensland deserved some of the blame for their massive losses.