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A challenge to the legality of common fund orders, an appeal to the High Court over the power of judges to stay competing cases, one of the first judgments in a shareholder class action and reform proposals promise to make 2019 another action-packed year in class actions. Here, experts give their predictions for the class action landscape this year.
Majority shareholders in MWL Financial have won court approval to bring a derivative suit against US-based Focus Financial Partners over an acquisition gone sour.
Last year was an exciting one for class action lawyers, with monumental court decisions on competing cases, cross-jurisdictional spats, proportionality in settlements and the power of judges to decide how a recovery is distributed. Here, top class action litigators tell us what the most significant rulings of 2018 were and why the decisions will continue to matter this year.
Rokt has won its bid to patent a digital advertising system, the first major court victory in one of three challenges to IP Australia's stance on the patentability of computer software.
The court will issue a judgment Wednesday in one of two closely watched cases awaiting judgment that may move the dial on the patentability of computer software.
A software-implemented business method could be patentable if programmed into a computer with "some ingenuity", IP Australia told the Full Federal Court as a landmark appeal between rival tech companies Encompass and Infotrack wrapped up Friday.
Fintech company Encompass has asked the Full Federal Court to take a more "nuanced" approach to software patentability than the one currently held by IP Australia, on the first day of a high-stakes appeal over the patentability of computer-related inventions.
A group representing patent and trade mark lawyers is seeking to intervene in a high-stakes appeal over computer software patents.
Building material manufacturer Amaca and distributor Seltsam have lost their appeal of a $1.5 million judgment won by a NSW resident who developed mesothelioma after working with asbestos during the 60s and 70s.
A judge has shot down a request by financial services company AGM that the court halt an ASIC proceeding seeking to revoke its financial services licence while a Federal Court case against it progresses.