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Drilling company Boart Longyear has reached a $10 million settlement with global mining technology company Imdex that resolves a long-running patent dispute.
Former Melbourne Demons chairman Glen Bartlett has been given the green light to relaunch a defamation case against the AFL club's president and other senior officials after discontinuing proceedings that were transferred from his home state of Western Australia to Victoria.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission employee's unfair dismissal case, finding his argument that he resigned after the regulator repudiated his contract "disingenuous".
The liquidator of failed global financial services firm Babcock & Brown is seeking to permanently stay a shareholder suit it says is an abuse of process, nearly five years after three other cases against the liquidator were thrown out.
The top judge of the NSW Supreme Court, which has seen a precipitous drop in class actions, has defended his court and taken shots at the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court for embracing contingency fees for class action lawyers.
Isuzu is the latest car maker to be stung with a class action for allegedly using defeat devices to cheat on emissions tests, and many more car makers may find themselves in the crosshairs over the "common practice".
The PR firm for a franchisee class action against United Petroleum has been sued for allegedly distributing an image to group members that depicted the petrol giant as "evil" and was allegedly intended to harm its position in the class action.
General Motors has failed to overturn a decision that put it on the hook for the applicant’s full costs in a partial settlement in a class action on behalf of Holden dealers, with an appeals court finding GM could not “walk away” from the ordinary meaning of the phrase ‘the plaintiff’s costs of the proceedings’.
A Sydney trader has brought an unfair dismissal case against CMC Markets, alleging his manager threatened his job and life after he complained about a shortfall in bonuses totalling more than $500,000.
A judge has granted a limited stay of an injunction against US sports merchandise Fanatics after AFL merchandise maker FanFirm won its case alleging the US company knew about its ‘Fanatics’ trade marks.