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PricewaterhouseCoopers has been slammed for refusing to release a report by law firm Linklaters into alleged wrongdoing by international partners, with a senator saying the firm was “hiding behind” privilege after it made thousands of such claims during an ATO investigation.
Two marine freight companies have lost a fight with a local council which refused to allow it to unload 3,000 head of cattle at Apollo Bay in Victoria, with a judge finding they were “the architects of their own misfortune” for striking a deal with a beef company before securing permission to berth at the port.
International Capital Markets may soon face a third class action, a court has heard, as the first two class actions to be filed against the Sydney-based online broker over risky contracts for difference mull consolidation.
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech to invalidate two patents for Crohn's disease drug Stelara, after reaching a licencing agreement over the medicine in the US.
A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner who alleges he was sacked for complaining about Lendlease's "aggressive taxation position" has lost a bid to argue before the High Court that his claims are covered by new whistleblower protections.
Health law practitioners are grappling with “snowballing awards” in claims over psychiatric injuries, according to Sparke Helmore’s new health law partner.
The High Court has refused special leave in a failed class action against Volkswagen over allegedly defective Takata airbags.
A Melbourne orthopaedic clinic has lost its bid to register the name ‘Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic’ as a trade mark, with a judge finding the phrase was just an ordinary combination of words.
Sydney financier First Class Capital has admitted it acquired three million shares in former market darling Big Un but has denied liquidators' claims that the purchase was part of a fraudulent design to inflate the share price ahead of the video start-up’s collapse.
It's a case of déjà vu in a class action against engineering services company Worley, with shareholders heading back to the appeals court after losing a second trial in their drawn out fight over disclosure breaches.