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Shine Lawyers has come under fire from a judge, after the firm filed an application to materially vary a 24.5 per cent group costs order in a settled shareholder class action against EML Payments.
‘Egregious’: Judge awards plaintiff $93K in strip search class action against NSW Police
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A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers.
Class action launched over ‘discriminatory’ Work for Dole program
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The Commonwealth has been hit with a class action on behalf of thousands of Indigenous people living in remote areas who took part in the “discriminatory and unjust” Work for the Dole program.
Singtel CEO says Optus Triple Zero outage caused by ‘people issue’
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Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has apologised for a 13-hour outage Triple Zero across three states that has been linked to the deaths of three people, blaming the outage on a “people issue”.
In High Court case, ASIC reminds justices litigants can’t ‘choose their judges’
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A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC’s case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.
Law firm lets stand $6M cut to Hino class action payout
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The firm that ran the Hino Motors class action will not appeal a decision by a judge that chopped its payout from an $87 million settlement by more than $6 million.
Developer appeals $158M asset freeze won by Keystone liquidators
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Developer Robert Filippini is appealing a ruling that granted the liquidators for Keystone Asset Management’s expanded freezing orders of up to $158 million in assets as well as two family trusts and four luxury cars.
Australian Clinical Labs agrees to $5.8M penalty over data breach
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In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.
Clayton Utz senior advisor won’t give evidence in ANZ whistleblower trial
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ANZ can’t call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.
ANZ whistleblower trial kicks off, with trader admitting inappropriate messages
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Former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou has admitted during cross-examination that lewd messages sent to other bankers through Bloomberg’s messaging platform were inappropriate and could cause offence.