A judge was too exacting in deciding the applicant in a shareholder class action against engineering services firm Worley suffered no loss from misleading guidance, an appeals court has heard.
An appeals court has found Zip Co infringed the ‘Zip’ trade mark of mortgage provider Firstmac, making orders restraining the buy now, pay later giant from using the name.
Macquarie’s fight with a NSW credit union — which saw the bank’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark cancelled because, a delegate found, it had only been used colloquially — has landed in the Federal Court.
A judge “went off the rails” in finding Worley liable for misleading or deceptive conduct, a lawyer for the engineering services company has said on the first day of an appeal in a shareholder class action.
The Tax Office has asked the High Court to reverse a landmark ruling that found an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, a decision that affects $50 billion in trust distributions.
A judge has found a $3.7 million error by an adjudicator in a dispute over a $43 million payment claim for work on an apartment complex in Queensland’s Main Beach showed a failure to properly consider the evidence and submissions.
Vittoria Cantarella has taken the fight to revive its ‘Oro’ trade marks to the High Court, arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the marks, which were first used by another coffee maker.
The corporate regulator has asked the Full Court to stamp out avenues for corporate mischief, as it challenges a finding about the authorised representative exemption to the licence requirement of financial services providers.
Green iron start-up Element Zero has lost its latest bid to set aside search orders in a case by Fortescue alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron.
The Full Federal Court’s docket for 2025 is stacked with class action appeals after a bad run for plaintiffs at trial.