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Businessman Clive Palmer has lost an application to put a stop to a trial in a case brought by the liquidators of collapsed Queensland Nickel after arguing the proceeding was continuing largely to pay the litigation funder bankrolling the case.
Norway-based shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS has become the third international shipper to be charged with price fixing in Australia, just three weeks after Japan's K-Line was hit with a record $34.5 million fine over the same alleged cartel.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought legal action against National Australia Bank over its scandal-ridden 'Introducer' loan referral program.
Arguing the pleadings are "evasive or ambiguous", Domino's Pizza has made a bid to strike out the statement of claim filed in a class action alleging franchisees underpaid thousands of workers across Australia for five years.
National Australia Bank is taking Helen Rosamond’s executive services company Human Group to court in connection with a multimillion dollar fraud against the bank.
A judge overseeing competing class actions against AMP over allegedly excessive superannuation fees has signed off on an agreement by two rival law firms to consolidate their cases, avoiding a potentially costly and drawn out beauty parade.
AMP has added two law firms to separately represent its subidiaries in one of two class actions alleging it charged its superannuation members excessive fees.
A restructuring and insolvency solicitor who is suing Russells Lawyers for summarily dismissing him has largely won a discovery dispute over evidence in the case, with a judge ruling the lawyer could access communications between any of the partners related to his termination two years ago.
The Federal Court's top judge has urged ASIC and ANZ to continue their "litigation good faith" in the corporate cop's action over $35 million in allegedly illegal customer fees charged by the bank, and cautioned the two sides against slogging it out with a "staged trench warfare" mentality.
After defeating the corporate regulator's case alleging it breached responsible lending laws, banking giant Westpac has won a reprieve from lodging a defence in a related class action.