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US drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme has settled trade mark litigation brought by German drug maker Merck KGaA alleging it violated a 1970 agreement by using the “Merck” mark in Australia.
Macquarie Bank on the hook for paying advisers leave entitlements
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Former Macquarie Bank financial advisers who claimed their commission pay structure left them shortchanged have won their case for back pay for annual and personal leave, in the first decision in a group of cases against the wealth manager.
Law firm investigates class action on behalf of NT Stolen Generations
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The Federal Government could face a class action seeking compensation for Indigenous Australians forcibly removed from their families in the Northern Territory from 1910 to the 1970s.
Michael Kodari can’t overturn $150,000 judgment for sacked bodyguard who sought legal advice
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Investment whiz Michael Kodari has lost his appeal of a $151,000 judgment awarded in favour of his former bodyguard, who lost his job — and his company Maserati — after wanting to seek legal advice about a new employment contract.
ANZ to pay $10M for unconscionable conduct in charging illegal bank fees
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A judge has ordered Australia and New Zealand Banking Group to pay $10 million in penalties after finding that the bank engaged in unconscionable conduct and breached its obligations by slugging customers $3 million in periodic payment fees it was not entitled to charge.
Viagogo slugged with $7M penalty for duping customers on ‘industrial scale’
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Viagogo has been ordered to pay a $7 million penalty for misleading customers into thinking the ticket reseller was an official vendor and failing to disclose booking fees of around 28 per cent.
Banksia judge to hear case against lawyer Alex Elliott after appeals court nixes recusal bid
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An appeals court has dismissed a second bid by lawyer Alex Elliott to have the judge overseeing the Banksia class action disqualified from hearing claims that he, like his late father, was party to an alleged fraudulent scheme in running the litigation.
‘Battle of the burgers’: McDonald’s fires up claim over cheeky Hungry Jack’s ad
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Fast food giant McDonald’s will expand its lawsuit against rival Hungry Jack’s to bring a misleading and deceptive conduct allegation over an ad that claims the Big Jack burger is “clearly bigger” than the Big Mac.
Barristers for Geoffrey Rush, Westpac among 44 new silks
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Forty-four barristers have ascended to the senior counsel ranks in NSW and Victoria, including the barrister that represented Geoffrey Rush in his high-profile defamation victory and a member of the legal team that successfully defended Westpac against ASIC’s infamous ‘Wagyu beef and shiraz’ case.
Amen, says judge as 25-year Bell Group saga laid to rest
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In an “ode to a dying corporation” a Western Australia judge known for his droll judgments has waxed poetic in approving the end of a quarter century of litigation over the collapse of Alan Bond’s Bell Group of companies, penning what he described in mock solemnity as “more of a requiem than a judgment”.