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Colonial First State will pay $56.3 million to settle a class action that accused the wealth management group of delaying the transfer of $3.2 billion in customer funds to low cost MySuper accounts.
Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has been ordered to pay more than $160,000 to a former general manager who was found by a court to have been the victim of a "campaign of denigration" by one of the firm's founders.
A Federal Court registrar overseeing a costs dispute between ASIC and former Tennis Australia president Steven Healy worked in the practice group where the costs were accrued and should recuse herself, the regulator has said.
The practice of appointing independent consultants to scrutinise legal costs in class actions has accelerated in the past four years and has resulted in millions of dollars going to group members, a new report reveals.
The senior counsel for Deutsche Bank in its sucessful defence against the ACCC's landmark cartel case is one of three new judicial appointments in NSW.
Questions raised about the structure of a settlement of two wage class actions against supermarket chain Romeo's don't just threaten to reduce the law firm's costs but could derail the whole agreement, a judge has said.
The High Court's judges will undergo annual group training in harassment, bullying and discrimination in the workplace following the findings of an investigation of former justice Dyson Heydon, who was found to have sexually harassed six of his associates.
Hoping to correct "mistakes" in his testimony in the trial of Clive Palmer's defamation case, Western Australia Attorney-General John Quigley will get the chance to amend his evidence as a witness for state premier Mark McGowan next month.
Novartis wants to appeal a ruling in its dispute with generic drug maker Pharmacor over patents for its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya that tossed three of its four experts out of an upcoming so-called hot tub.
Damages owed to a millionaire couple by JD Group over a "deliberately misleading" rendering of a $9.58 million apartment in South Yarra, Melbourne will be put on ice pending the outcome of the property developer's appeal.