QSuper has hit back at a class action over its alleged failure to notify members of changes to its premiums, saying group members failed to heed a “large font” notice of the changes and that any recoveries cannot be paid out to the law firm and funder running the litigation.
Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.
The Fair Work Commission has overturned a finding that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute “intimate” beach encounter with a student, saying the student was unfairly cast as an “embittered seductress.”
Alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has won a bid to call a troop commander known as Person 81 in his defamation trial against Fairfax Media, despite the media company’s objections.
A French Bulldog breeder has won a defamation case over Facebook comments calling her business a ‘puppy farm’.
Air-conditioning giant Seeley is appealing a decision by IP Australia shooting down its bid to block a father-son team from registering their ‘Natural Cool Air’ trade mark.
A judge has allowed three witnesses for HK Realway to give evidence by video link at an upcoming negligence trial against Thomson Geer, over protests from the firm, which said it would be inherently unfair.
Mining company Moina Gold has sued Joseph ‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnick for $500,000 it says it is owed over an alleged botched contract to explore three mineral tenements in Tasmania.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services license of Quattro Capital, which counted two Mayfair 101 entities among its corporate authorised representatives.
A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.