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The High Court has declined to step in after Hells Angels' award of $78,000 in damages for online marketplace Redbubble's infringement of its trade marks was slashed to just $100, bringing to an end an IP fight that has stretched on for nearly a decade.
The High Court will not hear mining magnate Clive Palmer's challenge to a court's finding that lawsuits he brought challenging two criminal cases against him over a takeover bid and alleged payments to his political party were an abuse of process and should be stayed.
The High Court has dismissed an appeal of a decision which found Indonesia's national airline could avail itself of foreign state immunity to defeat a winding up application.
Unanimously dismissing an appeal by thoroughbred breeding and horseracing giant Godolphin, the High Court has ruled on the proper construction of a tax exemption for rural land in NSW.
Hospitality giant Mantle Group has asked the High Court to find a statement by a full bench of the Fair Work Commission accusing it of acting "extraordinarily and contumaciously" during a dispute about a 'sham' enterprise agreement gave rise to an appearance of bias.
A New South Wales developer's competition case against NSW Ports over a ports privatisation agreement looks bound for the High Court after a judge found a related ACCC proceeding did not bar it from bringing the case, which will challenge a Full Court finding that the ports operator was shielded by derivative Crown immunity.
Supporting KPMG's bid to move a class action over the collapse of Arrium from Melboure to Sydney, former directors of the failed steel company have told the High Court the Victoria Supreme Court was impermissibly preferring the policy of its state in finding a contingency fee order made in the case could be factored into a transfer application.
The attorney-general of South Australia wants to intervene in a High Court appeal of a ruling that put Judge Salvatore Vasta on the hook for a man’s false imprisonment, saying the judge was not entitled to immunity but that police and correctional officers were.
The High Court has been asked to overturn a NSW Court of Appeal decision finding it had no power to exclude unregistered group members from a settlement, which conflicted with Federal Court precedent, hearing the divergence of the important issue “can only be resolved by the High Court”.
The High Court has found the indefinite detention of an Iranian man is not unlawful because he could be removed to his home country were he to cooperate with immigration authorities.