Thomsons

The High Court has ruled that abattoir Game Meats Company is not entitled to a constructive trust in the copyright over video footage obtained by animal activists while trespassing in a Victorian slaughterhouse.

Builder Fitzgerald Constructions has sued Cement Australia and Independent Cement alleging they breached an $80 million contract to build a storage silo in Port Melbourne. 

The High Court is set to rule Wednesday on whether animal activists own the copyright in video footage obtained while trespassing on the property of a Victorian slaughterhouse, a case that has implications for press freedoms.

Thomsons has strengthened its banking and finance team with the appointment of a lawyer from Norton Rose Fulbright.

A judge has tossed developer ApyHome's appeal of the refusal of its plan for an 88-lot development in Lawrence, NSW, finding it would have an unacceptable impact on the local car ferry service.

A former GJ Gardner franchisee claims the company cannot pursue breach of contract claims against him because the home builder had the opportunity to pursue the claims in an earlier case.

Four Australian law firms are at the top of their game when it comes to advising on copyright matters, according to an inaugural global ranking by the World Trademark Review.

A former producer of Seven's Spotlight who gave evidence in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case has lost his bid to remove Thompsons as the solicitor for News Corp in his defamation and racial discrimination suit against the publisher.

Russell Kennedy has lured planning and environment lawyer Craig Tidemann from Thomsons to join the firm's partnership in its Sydney office.

An appeals court has ruled that Heran Group's York Property can call on $6.4 million in bank guarantees in its dispute with builder Tomkins, which alleges that a $17.5 million payment certificate issued under a contract to build a 119-Gold Coast residential tower was not authorised.