Sydney-based research foundation Brien Holden Vision Institute has filed a lawsuit alleging three senior researchers misused confidential information when they jumped ship to a rival research group and filed applications to patent seven inventions for opthalmic lenses designed to treat myopia allegedly based on that information.
GetSwift has promised the Federal Court that it will inform the lead applicant in a shareholder class action if any of its assets are to be transferred outside of Australia, after the applicant raised concerns about the logistics company’s proposed relocation to Canada.
Australian mining company Mineral Commodities has settled its contractual dispute with international garnet supplier GMA Garnet, which has agreed to pay around $23 million and purchase almost one million tonnes of mineral sands.
Ernst & Young is facing a claim for $12 million damages in a lawsuit over its auditing of collapsed soda ash maker Penrice.
Recent changes in the Australian regulation of third-party funders will have a dramatic effect on the funding of certain disputes. Although these changes were accompanied by Government and industry commentary that they would not affect litigation funding for insolvency-related claims, this may not be the case for all insolvency funding arrangements, writes Lina Kolomoitseva of funder Litigation Capital Management.
Australian construction company Grocon has been ordered to pay $1 million in security for costs to continue its pursuit of a $270 million lawsuit against Infrastructure NSW over the development of Central Barangaroo, despite claiming it’s financials have taken a hit from the pandemic.
A landmark judgment by the Full Federal Court has found that a full bench of the Fair Work Commission “misconstrued” its own authority to make general protections findings about the dismissal of employees.
John Karantzis, the CEO of fintech company iSignthis, has launched defamation proceedings against Fairfax, targeting an Australian Financial Review article over the 900 per cent share price jump in Etherstack, a wireless radio tech company in which Karantzis owns shares.
The Greens Party is urging the Morrison Government to include the ABC and SBS in its mandatory media bargaining code, saying the plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news content was “incomplete” without protections for the public broadcasters.
International law firm Seyfarth Shaw has snagged a leading workplace health and safety partner from Sparke Helmore to expand its Melbourne team.
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