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Use of ‘healthy’ brands: legal issues

  • Gadens Lawyers
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  • Australia
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  • June 11 2013

The consumer watchdog, Choice, recently reported on the emerging practice of using trade marks as 'nutritional branding'. Choice examined over 200

ASOS recalls deadly radioactive belts ...when fashion tragedy meets product safety laws

  • MARQUE Lawyers
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  • Australia, India, United Kingdom
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  • June 5 2013

UK online retail giant ASOS was forced to voluntarily recall its leather studded belts worldwide, not because they were a fashion eyesore, but

Federal court considers DePuy and VIOXX product liability class settlements

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
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  • May 23 2013

A resurgence in product liability class actions has been predicted in Australia since May 2012

Food for thought

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
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  • May 21 2013

The Australian Greens Leader, Christine Milne, has introduced the new Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Country of Origin Food

ACCC pursues misleading credence claims again

  • Hall & Wilcox
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  • Australia
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has again shown its commitment to one of its 2013 focus areas - misleading credence claims

Legal causation and the duty to warn

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Australia, Canada
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  • May 8 2013

Can a defendant be liable for failing to warn about a risk which does not materialize, where this leads the plaintiff to be injured by a second

Prosecution as a tool for compliance with food laws

  • Norman Waterhouse
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  • Australia
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  • April 30 2013

This article provides an update on the recent high-profile finding of guilt against Woolworths (South Australia) Pty Ltd in a food prosecution

No liability found for injury where glass panel did not meet current Australian standards

  • Cooper Grace Ward
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  • Australia
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  • April 29 2013

The Queensland Court of Appeal has rejected a claim of negligence against a body corporate for injuries sustained by a woman who fell through glass in

A 'fat free' update on the new food standard

  • Norton Rose Australia
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  • Australia, New Zealand
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  • April 23 2013

Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) has introduced a new food standard, Standard 1.2.7 Representations about Food (Standard) to the

Product risk year in review 2012

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • April 17 2013

The plaintiffs, the Fulchers, conducted a successful tomato growing and packing operation. On 9 February 2004, a fire broke out in a newly-purchased