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Westpac faces new claim in life insurance class action
Class Actions 2018-02-23 8:39 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Westpac was responsible for the conduct of its in-house financial planner, who allegedly overcharged the bank’s own customers with excess premiums on life insurance, class […]

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Amaca can’t get indemnity costs over asbestos settlement
Construction 2018-02-23 8:17 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has rejected Amaca’s bid for indemnity costs in a case over contributions to an asbestos class action settlement, but he did not rule […]

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IP Australia shoots down Bayer patent
Intellectual Property 2018-02-23 8:17 pm By Christine Caulfield

IP Australia handed a win Thursday to a company challenging a Bayer animal drug patent, but gave Bayer two months to address the patent application’s […]

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Commonwealth Bank denies Austrac money laundering claims
Financial Services 2018-02-23 8:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Friday pushed back against the majority of expanded claims brought by the anti-money laundering regulator and denied all allegations […]

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Ex-Charter Financial adviser banned for fleecing elderly clients
Financial Services 2018-02-22 9:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A former financial adviser for Charter Financial Planning has been permanently barred from providing financial advice by Australia’s corporate regulator after it found he deducted […]

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Linfox workers can’t halt Fair Work case, court says
Employment 2018-02-22 8:49 pm By Christine Caulfield

A group of Linfox workers in Victoria has lost its bid to put a Fair Work appeal on ice while it challenges a commissioner’s ruling […]

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Judge in sports betting class action won’t recuse himself
Class Actions 2018-02-22 8:34 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge overseeing a class action brought by investors in a sports betting scheme has shot down a lawyer’s mid-trial bid that he recuse himself. […]

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Google bid for ad patent shot down by IP Australia
Intellectual Property 2018-02-22 8:19 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

IP Australia has rejected Google’s application for approval of a patent covering advertising price discounting, saying it was not a manner of manufacture and therefore […]

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Norton Rose dispute with ex-partner heads to mediation
Employment 2018-02-22 8:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A bitter court battle over the firing of a Norton Rose Fulbright employment partner in which the firm admitted it retroactively signed and dated a […]

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Sanofi wins challenge to Reckitt-Benckiser lozenge patent
Intellectual Property 2018-02-22 7:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Australian Patent Office has shot down a patent application covering throat lozenges by consumer goods giant Reckitt-Benckiser on a challenge by rival Sanofi-Aventis. Citing […]

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