The High Court has declined coffee maker Cantarella’s special leave application arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the ‘Oro’ trade mark, which was first used by another coffee maker.
Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have avoided a shareholder class action’s bid for early discovery of documents — including those produced to ASIC and the ATO — after Ellison argued it should wait until “numerous admissions” are made. The Phi Finney McDonald class action, filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 31 March,…
A judge has stayed engineering firm Clough’s $54 million cross-claim against its former joint venture partner on the EnergyConnect transmission project, Elecnor, saying the claim must be sent to arbitration.
An appeals court has dismissed the corporate regulator’s “logically inconsistent” appeal against a landmark decision that found insurer Auto & General did not include an unfair term in its contracts.
A court has found that an employee of a custom keycap business breached her fiduciary duties and infringed the company’s copyright when she launched a competing business using unlawfully downloaded company templates.
In a court fight between engineering firm Clough and its former joint venture partner Elecnor, a judge has questioned Elecnor’s “extremely inconvenient” bid to send Clough’s $54 million cross-claim to arbitration in Singapore.
Insurer Marsh has fired off a cross-claim against Swiss bank UBS in several cases brought over Greensill’s $1.7 billion collapse.
Genesis Minerals has agreed to buy the Laverton Gold Project in Western Australia from Focus Minerals for $250 million.
ASIC has asked the High Court to overturn a judgment in favour of cryptocurrency firm Block Earner, saying the decision would allow future products to escape regulation.
Clayton Utz has lured a top energy and infrastructure lawyer from Gilbert + Tobin to lead its energy practice. Alexander Danne will join the Clayton Utz partnership in July and will be based at the firm’s Melbourne office. Over his more than two decade-long career, Danne has amassed extensive experience, advising major regional and international…