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The leagues strike back: court overturns earlier decision

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • September 11 2012

The Full Federal Court has unanimously overturned an earlier trial judge's decision in favour of Optus

Waging a war on two fronts proves fatal to claim

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia, Germany
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  • July 6 2010

The facts of a recent case are redolent of a university choice of law examination question

Project home builder fined for misleading and deceptive conduct

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • November 27 2012

The Federal Court recently imposed penalties on a major building company for false and misleading advertising in promoting the sale of detached residential houses

There’s no 10 in ‘11 for Warburton

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • June 10 2011

Partner, Tom Griffith examines the case Seven Network v James Warburton in which the Supreme Court of NSW upheld a restraint of trade that has the effect of delaying a leading television executive’s plans to move from Channel Seven to competing network Channel Ten with effect from 14 July 2011

There's no 10 in '11 for Warburton

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 6 2011

In Seven Network v Warburton the New South Wales Supreme Court recently upheld a restraint of trade that had the effect of delaying a leading television executive's plans to move from Channel Seven to competing network Channel Ten

Twitter, suppression and the courts

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia, United Kingdom
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  • July 22 2011

The rise and rise of social media platform Twitter has had all sorts of impacts on the administration of justice

ASIC releases draft regulatory guidelines on advertising financial products and advice services

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • September 30 2011

ASIC recently released a consultation paper dealing with best practice guidance for the advertising of financial products and financial advice

Employment relations in the social media age

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • September 28 2011

From an employment relations point of view social media has had two major impacts

So, what is really so different about social media?

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • September 28 2011

Leading social network Facebook has grown from an on-campus idea launched by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 to a worldwide phenomenon boasting 600 million active users in January 2011

Responding to defamation online

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • September 28 2011

So you or your company, or worse still, both, have been defamed online