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.
Civil construction firm United Crib Blocks Construction has won a fight over a notice to produce in a case alleging a former employee has misused the company’s confidential information.
Lander & Rogers has recruited a contracting specialist from Clayton Utz for the law firm’s corporate practice in Canberra.
Billabong founder Gordon Merchant has won the ear of the High Court in his fight over what the ATO claims was a “wash sale” of his 10 million shares in the retailer, but the justices have also agreed to hear the tax office’s appeal.
A judge has declined car dealer software supplier Pentana’s bid to withdraw admissions made over four years ago in a dispute with competitor Titan DMS.
After departing the ACCC 25 years ago for private practice, the national head of King & Wood Mallesons’ competition law group has won a five-year appointment as commissioner.
Samsung Bioepis has successfully opposed Janssen’s bid to patent a monoclonal antibody to treat ulcerative colitis, but an IP Australia delegate has given the J&J-owned company a chance to fix its application.
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.
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.