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Judgment day in $1B Queensland floods class action
Class Actions 2019-11-28 3:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Eight years after floods in Southeast Queensland destroyed more than 2,000 homes, a judge will deliver his ruling in two class actions seeking a record $1 billion in damages, and the decision could well come down to which of two conflicting flood modeling reports the judge sides with.

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Bellamy’s to pay $49.7M to settle shareholder class actions
Class Actions 2019-11-27 10:05 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Infant food maker Bellamy’s has agreed to pay $49.7 million to settle two shareholder class actions alleging the company misled investors in 2016 about its China growth strategy and declining infant formula market share in Australia.

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Dentons defends Afterpay money laundering advice
Financial Services 2019-11-26 5:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Dentons is standing by the legal advice it gave to Afterpay regarding its compliance with anti-money laundering laws, after an independent auditor found the buy now, pay later company received “incorrect” advice from top-tier Australian law firms.

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Top tier law firms gave Afterpay bad advice on anti-money laundering compliance, auditor says
Financial Services 2019-11-25 10:24 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Buy now, pay later giant Afterpay got bad legal advice from “top tier Australian law firms” on its anti-money laundering compliance, an auditor’s report has found.

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Federal Court backs IP Australia’s rejection of computer-implemented invention
Intellectual Property 2019-11-25 4:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Federal Court has again sided with with the Commissioner of Patents in a challenge to a ruling that found two patents for a computer-implemented invention were not a manner of manufacture.

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‘Orwellian doublespeak’: Judge lashes Dover Financial’s client protection policy
ASIC 2019-11-22 11:10 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has won its case against defunct financial advisor Dover Financial and its former director, who famously collapsed during the banking royal commission, with a judge saying the company engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct through its inaptly titled ‘client protection policy’.

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‘The well has run dry’: Judge shoots down class action bid for internal Ford reports
Class Actions 2019-11-22 10:07 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The judge overseeing a class action against car maker Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmission has shot down the applicant’s request for additional discovery, saying that after multiple delays in the case “the well has run dry”.

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ANZ, Westpac to face class actions over ‘junk’ insurance
Class Actions 2019-11-22 8:44 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Slater and Gordon is planning class actions against ANZ and Westpac over allegedly worthless insurance, fresh off of winning a $49.5 million settlement in a junk insurance class action against the National Australia Bank.

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160-year-old IP boutique Watermark to hang up its hat
Business of Law 2019-11-21 10:52 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

IP boutique Griffith Hack will soon have around 80 practicing lawyers when it absorbs Australia’s oldest specialist intellectual property firm Watermark next year.

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Full Federal Court gets chance to weigh in on market-based causation
Appeals 2019-11-21 4:16 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Shareholders have appealed a ruling that found a “serious problem” with market-based causation and dismissed three cases against the liquidator of failed global financial services firm Babcock & Brown.

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