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ABC settles lawsuit by ‘overworked’ senior reporter
Employment 2021-12-15 11:57 am By Christine Caulfield

The ABC has resolved a discrimination lawsuit brought by a reporter who claimed she developed a medical condition as a result of being overworked.

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UniLodge targeted in underpayments class action investigation
Class Actions 2021-12-13 7:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

Unilodge Australia faces a potential class action alleging the student housing agency shortchanged staff by paying them under the wrong award.

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Banksia class action funder enters administration with no assets
Restructuring & Insolvency 2021-12-07 12:24 pm By Christine Caulfield

The litigation funder behind a fraudulent scheme in a class action over Banksia Securities has entered administration with negligible assets to its name.

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Class closure question expected to go up to High Court
Class Actions 2021-12-06 3:56 pm By Christine Caulfield

More than 18 months after a split emerged among the courts, the Full Federal Court will weigh in on whether judges have power to shut out unregistered group members from a class action. But given the breadth of the question for the appeals court, the issue is unlikely to be resolved there.

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Romeo’s to pay $1.55M to employees in class action settlement
Employment 2021-12-06 11:47 am By Christine Caulfield

Romeo’s will pay $1.55 million to registered group members as part of a settlement of two class actions alleging the supermarket chain underpaid staff.

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Threat of class action reform prompts rush to court
Class Actions 2021-12-01 5:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

Fearing passage of a contentious bill in parliament that threatens to curb open class actions, plaintiffs law firms and funders have raced to court with new cases in the past two weeks.

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Mazda’s customer service ‘appalling’ and misleading, but not unconscionable, judge finds
Competition & Consumer Protection 2021-11-30 4:11 pm By Christine Caulfield

Mazda’s treatment of customers with defective vehicles was “appalling” and its statements about their entitlement to a refund were false or misleading, a judge has found in a partial win for the ACCC.

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Fifth overtime class action filed by junior doctors in Victoria
Employment 2021-11-30 1:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

Victoria’s Alfred and St Vincent’s hospitals are the targets of a new class action filed on behalf of junior doctors alleging they were not paid for unrostered work that included admitting patients and attending to medical emergencies.

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Westpac faces $100M penalty in six ASIC cases over ‘widespread failures’
Financial Services 2021-11-30 9:10 am By Christine Caulfield

Banking giant Westpac has admitted to allegations in six new cases by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleging widespread compliance failures across multiple businesses, and will agree to pay a combined $100 million penalty.

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Banksia judge made no allowance for ‘youth and inexperience’ of Mark Elliott’s son, appeal says
Appeals 2021-11-26 12:48 pm By Christine Caulfield

The judge who made findings against the son of the mastermind behind the Banksia class action scam may have formed strong views about the 27-year-old’s role before he testified and used the flawed suggestion that he was his father’s right-hand man as an “evidential gap filler”, an appeals court has been told.

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