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Australia’s largest milk producer Van Dairy has hit Fonterra Australia with lawsuits alleging the processor misled farmers and engaged in unconscionable conduct when it slashed milk prices in 2016.
Sparke Helmore should face higher damages bill for negligence, developer says
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A NSW developer says law firm Sparke Helmore should face a heftier damages bill for its negligence in failing to alert it to an imminent deadline in two land sale contracts worth a combined $1.5 million that were part of a troubled $30 million development.
AGL dodges green shareholder’s challenge to demerger scheme booklet
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AGL Energy has defeated a green investor’s challenge to its demerger scheme booklet ahead of a vote on the controversial proposal, but has been ordered to rectify a video to disclose the climate-related risks of the plan.
Seeing red: Priceline can’t trade mark signature pink
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Discount pharmacy Priceline cannot trade mark the signature bright pink that adorns it shopfront signs and awnings, an IP Australia delegate has found.
Apple faces battle to protect Touch ID source code in patent stoush
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Apple is “unlikely” to avoid production of the source code for its Touch ID and Face ID technology to an Australian non-practicing entity that has sued the Silicon Valley company for patent infringement, a judge has said.
ABC’s ‘fool’ claims shot down in defamation suit over ‘Putin’s Patriots’
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A judge has struck out part of the ABC’s defence in a lawsuit by the head of Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves over an allegedly defamatory Four Corners report.
Federal Circuit judge resigns after investigation of misconduct
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A recent appointee to the Federal Circuit Court has resigned after an investigation in response to claims of misconduct made by a third party.
GST class action likely to be dropped after funder bows out
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The future of a class action against a Canberra property developer accused of misleading investors about GST on their apartments is in doubt after the litigation funder withdrew support for the “uneconomic” case.
‘Not good enough’: Judge urges HWL Ebsworth to rethink defence in partner spat
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HWL Ebsworth has been taken to task for its spare defence in a $4.4 million lawsuit by a former capital partner, with a judge saying the court was entitled to know how the law firm relied on the partnership deed to deny the solicitor’s right to an equitable share of firm profits.
‘Just a fishing expedition’: Quintis class action can’t see EY meeting docs
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Shareholders bringing a class action against Quintis have lost their bid for Ernst & Young to hand over documents from two meetings with a director of the sandalwood supplier, after a judge found they did not get “within a bull’s roar” of showing the accounting firm’s discovery was inadequate.