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Element Zero’s timeline for green iron prototype suspect, Fortescue engineer tells court
It would only have been possible for start-up Element Zero to deliver an operational green iron prototype in two years with its assumed funding with the help of a "substantial amount of information" on how the project should progress, metals giant Fortescue claims.
Hamilton Locke snags corporate pros from Corrs, Gilbert + Tobin
Relative newcomer Hamilton Locke has lured two lawyers from Corrs Chambers Westgarth and one from Gilbert + Tobin to grow its corporate team.
High Court appeal seeks total knockout of common fund orders
The High Court has been asked to overturn a Full Court decision finding lawyers can take a cut from a class action settlement under a solicitors’ common fund order and to finally settle the question of whether the court has the power to issue common fund orders at all.
Fortescue resists startup’s attempt to cross-examine IP lawyer in search order fight
Mining company Fortescue, which alleges green iron startup Element Zero misused confidential information, is fighting a bid to cross-examine its external lawyer as part of an application to quash search orders.
Cloud banking provider Temenos can access legal advice in credit union’s case
Swiss fintech Temenos has partially won its bid to view legal advice received by the Northern Inland Credit Union in a lawsuit alleging the cloud banking provider made misleading representations during negotiations for the installation of a new core banking system.
Former EY partner loses $1M share dispute against National Tiles
A former EY partner and ousted board member at National Tiles has lost his $1 million claim alleging the company breached implied terms in a contract by requiring him to sign a “draconian, unreasonable and unacceptable” share agreement.
Monsanto defeats class action alleging weed killer Roundup causes cancer
A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic but did not go so far as to say it definitively does not cause cancer, while also dressing down the lawyers for both sides for causing delays in the case.
Investor class action can’t see Virgin’s advice from Herbert Smith Freehills
A judge has rejected arguments that Virgin Australia waived legal professional privilege over advice from Herbert Smith Freehills by claiming in a class action defence that it had a reasonable belief that statements in a prospectus for a $324 million capital raising were not misleading.
Grays hit with $10M penalty for misleading cars listings
Online auction site Grays has been ordered to pay $10 million in penalties after it admitted to making misleading statements in the descriptions of at least 750 cars listed for sale on its website. 
Fortescue accused of ‘extraordinary invasion of privacy’ of start-up trio
Seeking to quash search orders won by metals company Fortescue against former employees who founded a green iron rival, a lawyer for the start-up has said three terabytes of data were indiscriminately copied, including confidential, privileged and irrelevant material.