Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a bid to drop claims on behalf of 340 property owners in a class action against Sydney developer Mulpha over a 683-lot development in Glenmore Park. 

3M has told a judge that a key issue in the Commonwealth’s $2 billion case over PFAS contamination be whether class action settlements can mitigate its limitations defence to a misleading and deceptive conduct claim. 

Greensill investor White Oak is not entitled to damages from IAG after it settled with broker Marsh in relation to $140 million in receivables, the insurer has told a trial court, saying it would amount to “double recovery”.

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have sought to declass a group proceeding over waste from the Wittenoom asbestos mines, after the WA government argued claims predating the Federal Court’s class action regime were barred.

The owners corporation at a mixed use development on the lower north shore of Sydney has lost an appeal seeking work orders against builder Ceerose and developer Zone Q, after partially winning its initial case.

Insurer IAG has argued Greensill investor White Oak failed to verify the existence of $140 million in receivables for fear the deal wouldn't go ahead -- conduct, it says, that was “redolent of a deal that is too good to be true”. 

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have sought to declass a group proceeding over waste from the Wittenoom asbestos mines, after the WA government argued claims predating the Federal Court’s class action regime were barred. 

Arrotex has hit back at a lawsuit by the maker of Maltofer iron supplements, filing a cross-claim alleging its rival’s advertising was false because it conveyed its product was superior to Ferro-grad C.

The managing director of stockbroking firm Fortrend Securities breached privacy rules by sending an adviser's medical certificate to a client and saying he had a “nervous breakdown”, a tribunal has found. 

A judge said Tuesday a costs referee’s report did not give an “adequate basis” for $13 million in fees sought by a law firm behind a settled class action against Qantas over COVID-era flight cancellations.