A judge has questioned whether the lead applicant in a class action over sleep apnea machines with alleged safety defects was “appropriately resourced” to run the case against health tech giant Philips.
The former head of money markets at the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group has sued his former employer claiming he was sacked for making complaints about sexual harassment by senior managers at the bank and false reporting to the prudential regulator.
The ACCC has refused to authorise a patent settlement and license agreement between Bristol-Myers Squibb unit Celgene and two generic drug makers who sued to invalidate the patents for its blockbuster cancer drug Revlimid, saying it could distort competition between generic drug makers.
The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association has flagged its intent to bring further cases against various McDonald’s franchisees, alongside eleven claims it has brought to date over alleged failures to give workers paid 10-minute breaks.
Group members in a class action by Papua New Guinea workers against labour hire firm CoreStaff would get less than half of a $6.4 million settlement if the funder that backed the case seeks a common funder order for a 35 per cent commission.
A Federal Court judgment has laid out when a responsible entity of a managed investment scheme will be indemnified for its operating costs and when it can recoup legal costs in defending lawsuits brought over trust property.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether an Australian court’s recognition of a $375 million international arbitration award against the kingdom of Spain violated the sovereign immunity doctrine.
In a victory for Victorian independent candidate Zoe Daniel, the state’s Supreme Court has found that promotional signs displayed on lawns did not fall foul of a local council ban on unauthorised displays.
The Full Federal Court has appointed a contradictor to “take up the cudgels” against funder Litigation Capital Management, which has challenged a judgment refusing to find that a class action filed against Queensland electricity operators was not a managed investment scheme.
Insurance Australia Group agent Bond & Credit Company owes damages for misleading representations to Greensill Capital if the insurer was not authorised to enter into a trade credit policy at the centre of four lawsuits over the collapse of the financial services firm, a court has been told.