Law Firms

Engineering services firm Worley has taken last month's landmark loss in a shareholder class action to the High Court, challenging the Full Federal Court's embrace of market-based causation and its adoption of the facilitation principle.

Australian firms will continue to join forces with firms in the United States in a bid for higher partner profits and in response to client demand for a one-firm, multi-location service, an expert has predicted.

The government of Peru has won its appeal against an Australian Trade Mark Office decision that rejected its bid to trademark the alcoholic spirit pisco.

A shareholder class action has won access to reports by FTI Consulting and KPMG that were commissioned by water remediation company Phoslock, with a judge finding they were not created for the dominant purpose of providing legal advice.

Super trustee Diversa has denied it is liable for $300 million in alleged investor losses after it made the First Guardian Master Fund available on its platform, pointing the finger at responsible entity Falcon Capital, its directors and ASX-listed promoter Praemium.

Google has hit back at a class action alleging it abused its dominance in the digital advertising market, saying that publishers are able to, and often do, develop their own ad tech tools or rely on competing third-party solutions.

US-based haircare company Amika has taken Kmart and Target to court for allegedly selling knockoff versions of its products. 

The Commonwealth has hit back at a case brought by Brittany Higgins’ former manager, Fiona Brown, arguing former prime minister Scott Morrison’s action were not ‘employer’ functions under parliamentary staff legislation.

A judge has approved a $550 million settlement in a class action over the Morrison government’s Robodebt scheme but has halved a funder’s payout to $35 million, despite arguments that it was unprecedented to award a single digit percentage commission. 

A judge has ruled that the trustee for Dexus' airport fund is justified in challenging a court decision that forces a compulsory sale of a $4.5 billion interest in the operator of Melbourne Airport.