The judge overseeing a class action against dam operators Seqwater and Sunwater and the state of Queensland over the 2011 Queensland floods has thrown out part of an engineer’s risk assessment report on the dams submitted by Seqwater, as the marathon trial nears the end of its sixth month.
The judge overseeing seven class actions against S&P Global Ratings over toxic financial products has appointed a barrister to advise him on whether to approve a confidential global settlement, which would give funder Litigation Capital Partners about half the payout.
Google has lost a bid for a patent for a mobile payment system, with an examiner for IP Australia calling the proposed patent a business rather than technical innovation.
The Corner Hotel in Melbourne is suing McDonald’s, claiming a new hipster cafe that serves as a testing lab for the fast food giant violates its trade mark.
Media monitoring company Streem has been granted interim relief in its dispute with the Copyright Agency Limited over the terms of an agreement to sublicence news content from leading publishers, including News Corp, Fairfax Media, and Bauer Media.
National wholesale butcher Top Cut Foods has been ordered to pay almost $585,000 after a judge found its negligence led to a workplace assault which gave one of its employees PTSD.
A Sydney executive is fighting plans to extradite him to the US to face charges that he supplied military technology to Iran in violation of a weapons embargo.
The lead applicant in a resolved class action against Bank of Queensland has argued law firm Quinn Emanuel and litigation funder Vannin Capital should have their costs slashed by millions of dollars, saying their fees left little of the settlement for group members.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has dropped plans for a class action against Retail Food Group alleging the franchisor misled shareholders about the long-term viability of its business model.
A judge has dismissed a proposed class action against the Commonwealth of Australia alleging it breached a contract to train enlisted Navy sailors to earn engineering degrees, ruling the contract void.
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