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An employment class action against The Reject Shop can redefine group members and amend its claims, but not with retroactive effect that may have exposed the retailer to a case worth tens of millions of dollars.
With evidence finally in after six years, Lendlease has asked a court to reject a portion of a shareholder class action’s expert reply evidence, arguing it unfairly introduces a new and unforeseen loss methodology.
Mayne Pharma has said it may seek to shut out US drug maker Cosette's expert evidence in proceedings over the purported termination of their $672 million merger.
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A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
Carpet supplier Godfrey Hirst wants more discovery to back up its claims that a competitor's distressed business bounced back after its former general counsel -- allegedly aided in part by Piper Alderman -- jumped ship along with a senior manager, taking “thousands” of documents.
OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix 'GPT'.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.
The receiver for failed Banksia Securities wants a release from claims stemming from his role, including a case by investors who lost their life savings only to be duped by the class action team that represented them.
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K&L Gates has bolstered its international arbitration practice group, appointing a multilingual Clifford Chance alumni to serve as partner.