Crown Melbourne has lost a bid to patent a modified roulette game intended to bridge the gap between the European and American versions of the game, with IP Australia finding the invention does not constitute a manner of manufacture.
Liquidators for collapsed forestry giant Gunns Plantations have lost a High Court appeal over $1.2 million in payments to a former supplier that confirmed the so-called peak indebtedness rule does not apply in Australian insolvency law.
A2 Milk has succeeded in fending off a second shareholder class action in New Zealand for now, with New Zealand High Court finding that Australia is the more appropriate forum to hear the claims.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won its appeal against Employsure over alleged misleading Google advertisements, with the Full Federal Court upping the penalty against the specialist workplace relations consultancy from $1 million to $3 million.
Uber has won a strike-out bid in a lawsuit by drivers challenging their classification as independent contractors, with a judge finding the pleading was “self-evidently, uncommonly and irretrievably deficient.”
The family of late pastoralist Thomas Brinkworth can’t get security for costs from a landowner bringing a bushfire class action in South Australia, with a court ruling security was unnecessary under the class action rules in the state, which can bind all group members to an adverse costs order.
The Western Australia government has foreshadowed a strike-out application just one month after being hit with a class action on behalf of detainees in the state’s detention centres.
A class action against KPMG over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania has settled its claims against former Tasmanian Premier Robin Gray.
Australia’s largest private health insurer Medibank is facing a class action over a data breach that affected close to 10 million customers.
A Sydney barrister who charged $349,360 after giving an estimate of $60,000 for work on a bankruptcy case has lost his bid for a costs review after his fee was slashed, with a judge finding his client could not make an informed choice about her representation.
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