Australian designer Katie Taylor has won her High Court appeal in a fight with pop star Katy Perry over the right to trade mark her name, with the court saying a Full Court ruling in Perry’s favour “rewarded the wrongdoers”.
A judge has granted the first-ever application to vary a contingency fee in a class action that has yet to reach settlement or judgment, but has warned his decision doesn’t set a precedent for “routine variation” of group costs orders.
The NACC has released its report after a secretive investigation into six people linked to the Robodebt scandal, finding two bureaucrats engaged in serious corrupt conduct but letting former PM Scott Morrison off the hook.
Sydney’s four largest mobile crane companies have denied claims by the ACCC that agreements on a group chat to not supply cranes to certain customers and construction sites were anti-competitive.
A class action against Dr Daniel Lanzer and his clinic has won approval to allege that some doctors passed themselves off as plastic surgeons in social media posts, including some that included the terms #plasticsurgeon and #plasticsurgery.
A court has found that Racing NSW’s appointment of an administrator to the owner of Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse over financial concerns was invalid.
Athleticwear giant Lululemon has been hit with a $700,00 penalty for sending close to 400,000 emails that had both a commercial and promotional purpose but that did not include an unsubscribe link.
An insurance expert with nearly 15 years of experience has joined Clyde & Co’s partnership from DLA Piper.
An activist group has amended its challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project to allege the Environment Minister delayed publishing his reasons for approving the project in order to limit challenges, with the court hearing the dispute will likely wind up at the High Court.
The ACT’s Territory Planning Authority can appeal a decision approving a $330 million, 691-unit development at the Gold Creek Country Club.
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