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ATO wins appeal in $82M tax spat with BHP over Singapore marketing hub
The Australian Taxation Office has successfully appealed an Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision in favour of BHP Billiton, leaving the mining giant with a hefty $82 million tax bill over its Singapore marketing hub.
CSIRO appeals ruling allowing changes to BASF GMO patent
The CSIRO is appealing a decision by the Commissioner of Patents that allowed chemical giant BASF to amend its application for a genetically modified organisms patent.
NAB says customers could decide if credit card insurance was ‘worthless’
National Australia Bank has rejected a class action's claims that it pushed worthless credit card insurance onto its customers, saying it was up to the customers to determine the true value of the coverage.
Cargill ordered to give Glencore info on unauthorised barley use
Agricultural giant Cargill has been ordered to hand over documents to Glencore regarding its use of an unauthorised type of barley before and after its $420 million acquisition of malt producer Joe White.
Top 10 class action settlements of 2018
From a record-setting funder’s cut to the first call for ‘“proportionality”, last year saw a number of groundbreaking judgments approving class action settlements worth more than half a billion dollars. Here are the 10 biggest settlements of 2018, and the law firms and funders that negotiated them.  
Paypal finds friend in IP Australia, wins trade mark challenge to FinPal
Online payment giant PayPal has successfully opposed trade mark registration sought by Australian financial planning software company FinPal, with IP Australia finding the -pal suffix to be a "striking similarity" between the two marks.
Toxic foam class action not time-barred, court hears
The applicants in a class action over exposure to allegedly toxic foam used on a government military base have struck back at the Commonwealth of Australia's argument that their claims were filed too late.
JP Morgan wins bid to keep ANZ probe docs confidential
JP Morgan, the reported whistleblower behind a criminal cartel case against ANZ, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup over a $2.5 billion share placement, has won its bid to keep documents from a related ASIC probe confidential.
Full Court tosses ACCC appeal in Medibank disclosure case
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has lost an appeal of a ruling that dismissed its case over allegedly inadequate disclosures by private health insurer Medibank relating to member benefits.
IOOF says APRA should be able to state its case after 3-year probe
A barrister for two units of embattled wealth manager IOOF and three senior company executives facing claims by APRA have criticised the regulator for filing a broad concise statement and no statement of claim after a three-year investigation.