Law Firms

Agricultural giant Graincorp has reached a settlement in a class action by rural Victorians over noise and odour pollution allegedly emitted by its oilseed factory in rural Victoria.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has added another impressive lateral to its growing tax practice, luring Ashurst's global co-head of tax.

A prefab home builder has filed an application with the High Court after it was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.

Puma has appealed its failed opposition to a trade mark for Tiger Woods' golf apparel and equipment brand Sun Day Red, which the German sneaker giant argued was too similar to its iconic leaping cat mark.

The applicants in a case over strip searches conducted of female passengers on a Qatar Airways flight at Doha Airport want the airline to produce any communications with other planes, and to do so by month's end.

ASX-listed biotech 4D Medical has sued competitor Cyclopharm alleging the company made false, misleading and malicious statements about its rival during an online webinar prompted by a "fake" question.

Animal drug company Zoetis has lost its bid for summary dismissal of claims that it infringed US-based animal genomics company Scidera's bovine gene patent, with a judge saying its novel arguments were not so clear-cut and needed to be worked out at trial.

A luxury Hamilton Island resort has lost its bid to vary the form of security ordered last year in its $15 million suit over allegedly defective rectification works completed in the wake of Cyclone Debbie. 

Owners of apartments in Sydney's One Central Park, who are embroiled in disputes with developer Frasers over defective planter boxes on the building's façade, can't get a court declaration to impact rectification works.

A judge has vacated an upcoming trial in a $27 million lawsuit against a unit of Coronation Property over alleged defects in a Liverpool high-rise.