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A dietitian for food giant Heinz has denied that the company misrepresented snacks for toddlers as health food, despite containing the equivalent of three teaspoons of sugar per serving. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission commenced litigation against Heinz before the Federal Court in June last year following a complaint from the health lobby group […]

David “Jackson” Mueller, the Denver radio host who was found guilty last week of groping pop megastar Taylor Swift, succeeded in an interlocutory motion barring the singer from calling a Gender Studies academic to profile Mueller’s masculinity during Swift’s successful claim for assault and battery. Mueller had initially attempted to sue Swift, claiming that he […]

Lawyers for American rapper Marshall ‘Eminem’ Mathers recently called on Australian composer, writer, and radio presenter Dr Andrew Ford as an expert witness in the rapper’s ongoing intellectual property lawsuit against the New Zealand National Party. Eminem’s Detroit-based music publishers Eight Mile Style allege that a song used in a 2014 campaign ad for the […]

We have previously reported on the sweeping changes made to the regime of Expert Evidence in the Federal Court following the introduction of the Harmonised Expert Witness Code of Conduct. Now, NSW, ACT, Tasmania, and Victoria have adopted the new code in each of their relevant civil procedure rules. These changes are extremely important as […]

This post finishes our recent series on emerging issues and trends in Australian Class Action Litigation. In Australia, there is a steady increase in major class action claims[1] owing to the increased prevalence of third party funding and a stable legislative environment. With this comes the need to ensure that plaintiffs and defendants alike are […]