Law Firms

An IP Australia delegate has rejected olive oil maker Cobram Estate’s bid to register a trade mark featuring the phrase 'premium quality great taste', saying other traders should be free to use the label for similar goods.

Optus has urged a court to make orders requiring group members to register for a data breach class action that covers 9.5 million people, but the lead applicant argues the case should remain open. 

Pizza chain Domino's has lodged an appeal and secured a stay of orders following a ruling in a class action that it misled franchisees on worker pay entitlements.

A judge overseeing competing shareholder class actions against James Hardie has said the judge who hears a carriage fight and applications for a group costs order should preside over the trial to avoid inefficiencies.

A court has signed off on a $28.1 million settlement in an immigration detention class action against the Commonwealth, including nearly $11 million in costs for the firm that ran the case.

Macquarie International Health Clinic has lost the latest chapter in its decades long battle over the proposed development of a private hospital within the precincts of Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

The company that paid $60 million for bankrupt Jon Adgemis' Noah's Backpackers hotel in Bondi Beach has been ordered to cough up $6 million in GST refunds to a Singapore special purpose vehicle that arranged a loan for the purchase.

A judge has awarded investment firm Merricks Capital $46 million in its lawsuit against tech entrepreneur Peter Crown and his wife over a loan to purchase land in the Southern Highlands.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to temporararily block developer Clarence Property from building artificial frog ponds in Brunswick Heads as part of a 123-lot residential development.

Two law firms will battle for carriage of a shareholder class action against hearing device manufacturer Cochlear, a court has heard.