Mosaic Brands has paid $630,000 in penalties after being hit with infringement notices by the ACCC for misleading claims made about hand sanitiser and masks sold on its websites at the height of COVID-19 pandemic last year.
The federal Minister for the Environment owes a duty of care to children who could suffer “catastrophic” harms from increased greenhouse gas emissions that would result from approving the expansion of Whitehaven’s Vickery coal mine, a judge has ruled.
The corporate regulator is taking five AMP entities to court alleging they acted unconscionably by continuing to charge life insurance premiums and advice fees to more than 2,000 customers after they were notified of their death.
King & Wood Mallesons has come under fire over partner Scott Farrell’s role as head of a Treasury review into the Australian payments system, with a Sydney fintech claiming the law firm appears to have a conflict of interest.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison should apologise to former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate for leveling an “improper threat” during a Senate hearing last year that she should “stand aside or go” for purchasing $5,000 Cartier watches as bonuses for four employees.
A junior barrister expressed concerns to Sue Chrysanthou SC about her acting for Christian Porter in his defamation proceedings against the ABC, saying friends of the women who accused him of rape were “behaving like a cult” and that there could be fallout in the media, a court has heard.
Ben Roberts-Smith has won approval to split his case at the upcoming trial in his defamation case against three publishers over articles accusing him of war crimes, with a judge saying the seriousness of the allegations against him weighed in favour of the unorthodox move.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter has dodged a question about whether his defamation lawsuit against the ABC and reporter Louise Milligan is being funded by third parties, saying he went into the litigation knowing the case would be a “massive drain” on his finances.
The High Court has denied the ATO’s request that it weigh in on Australia’s transfer pricing regime, leaving in place a Full Court victory for mining giant Glencore that left it paying $2 million of a $92 million bill relating to the sale of copper from a mine in Cobar, NSW.
Arnott’s and Campbells have settled a lawsuit brought by Goodman Fielder accusing them of infringing its ‘Plantry’ mark under which it sells plant-based frozen meals, after the cookie company filed a cross-claim seeking to have the mark cancelled.
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