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After losing a fight over access to millions of seized documents, Fortescue has settled its trade secrets case against green iron company Element Zero.

Chinese video game giant Tencent can amend a bid to register its Arena Breakout videogame trade marks, after IP Australia found only minimal overlap with Foxtel’s ‘Arena’ brand.

A homophobic tweet aimed at independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich may have approached “vulgar abuse" but was just part of the cut and thrust of Australian political debate, former One Nation politician Mark Latham has said.

A judge has ordered trustee United Super to pay $23.5 million after admitting it was liable for excessive delays in processing $20 million in death and disability claims.

Uber Eats and DoorDash have reached a landmark deal with the Transport Workers Union to set baseline pay and protections for gig workers.

A judge has approved an increase in the costs of distributing a $180 million settlement in a stolen wages class action but has said more "frankness" is needed in competitive tenders for the administration gig.

A Sydney builder has lost its challenge to a $453,000 judgment for a developer, with an appeals court finding the construction company claimed payment for a greater amount of work than was done on a project in Dural. 

MA Financial Group has added Hyperdome Town Centre to its real estate portfolio, acquiring the South-East Queensland shopping complex from QIC for $678.7 million.

A superannuation fund has taken McCullough Robertson to court, arguing that its former solicitors failed to warn that a $33 million share sale agreement with Firecroft Technical Services could be jeopardised if a related Fair Work Commission approval was quashed. 

Macquarie Asset Management has made an offer to acquire Qube which values the infrastructure giant at $11.6 billion.