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A Credit Union Australia worker, who was fired for ringing up $100 in personal coffee orders on the company’s tab, has lost her bid to appeal a Fair Work Commission decision that she wasn’t unfairly dismissed.
Former Liberal power broker accuses 60 Minutes of ‘reckless’ defamation
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Former vice president of the Victorian Liberal Party Marcus Bastiaan has hit Nine with a defamation lawsuit over an explosive 60 Minutes report which allegedly implied the Sydney man was a political power broker with an illegal branch stacking operation.
Law firm would have had onus of proof in Arrium cross-claim defence, judge says
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Herbert Smith Freehills this week escaped a cross-claim that its advice made it liable for the alleged losses of Arrium’s lenders, but the judge who tossed the claim along with the banks’ cases expressed doubts about one of the law firm’s key arguments, a warning to other firms caught up in litigation as so-called concurrent wrongdoers.
ANZ flags fight over use of ASIC communications in sacked trader’s case
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ANZ may fight to block a sacked trader from relying on his communications with ASIC in a case alleging he was fired after complaining about rate-rigging at the bank, saying it may be unlawful to use the documents, a court has heard.
Cytec prevails again in challenge to Nalco mining patent
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US-based chemical and materials technology company Cytec Industries has won its Federal Court challenge to a mining patent application by a unit of Ecolab, with the court finding the claims in the patent lacked support and sufficient disclosure.
ACCC chief warns Google, Apple of more regulation to come
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating whether new legislation is needed to address the impact of dominant digital platforms such as Google and Apple, as the regulator’s overseas counterparts usher in bills aimed at cracking down on anticompetitive behaviour.
A2 Milk takes trade mark battle over Nestle’s NAN A2 to Federal Court
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New-Zealand dairy company a2 Milk is challenging a win for Nestle over the Swiss food and drink giant’s NAN A2 trade mark for infant formula, a mark IP Australia found was not deceptively similar to a2’s logo.
Coca-Cola tastes victory in defence of artificial sweetener patent
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Intellectual property law firm Spicer Spicer has lost its opposition to Coca-Cola’s patent application for soft drinks and syrups containing an artificial sweetener known as Reb X, with an IP Australia delegate rejecting the firm’s argument the patent was not inventive.
CoreLogic infringed real estate photographer’s copyright, appeals court says
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Property data analytics firm CoreLogic infringed the copyright of a real estate photographer by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its own property data platform without a licence, the Full Federal Court has found.
Developer’s ‘utterly unreasonable’ claims tossed in case over Fairfax brothel article
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A Gold Coast developer must re-plead allegations in a defamation lawsuit against Fairfax over an article alleging he met a former Ipswich mayor at a brothel, after a judge struck out several claims that he described as “spectacularly imaginative and utterly unreasonable”.