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A judge has criticised a law firm for allocating only two solicitors to its class action against United Petroleum over the installation of alleged loss-making Pie Face stores.
United Petroleum and director Ari Silver can wait for the rehearing of a security for costs bid before filing defences to a franchisee class action alleging misleading conduct.
The judge overseeing an $100 million class action against NAB over the collapse of Walton Construction has rejected the bank’s bid for soft class closure ahead of mediation.
The former general manager of iProsperity has lost his challenge to the collapsed fund manager's liquidators getting more time to investigate $18 million in payments he received, with the Full Court finding they were not wrong to prioritise investigations into $62.5 million in payments to Crown and The Star.
A franchise class action against United Petroleum has asked a court for leave to expand the class action to include a group of commission agents and to add the oil company's parent as a third defendant.
A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over the installation of allegedly loss-making Pie Face stores at its franchise sites has succeeded in fending off the petrol company’s bid for security, with a judge agreeing it would have a chilling effect on the unfunded case.
A judge overseeing a class action against NAB has ordered group members to be sent an unusual notice stating that the case has been run in a “wholly unsatisfactory manner” and said he will consider dismissing the action if it continues in the same vein.
The law firm that's running a franchisee class action against United Petroleum over allegedly loss-making Pie Faces stores has has won its bid to peek at draft communications the oil giant wants to send to group members.
United Petroleum, which is facing a franchisee class action over allegedly loss-making Pie Face stores, is resisting a plaintiff law firm's bid for “a right of veto” over the petrol giant's communications with group members, even those not represented by the firm.
A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over the installation of allegedly loss-making Pie Face stores at its franchise sites is fighting two applications for security for costs which it says can’t be met, as funders take little interest in the case.