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The Full Federal Court has thrown out a decision that found foreign passengers could join a class action against cruise operator Carnival PLC over the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess, finding a class action waiver was not unfair.
The Northern Territory government has hit back at a class action over allegedly underresourced and discriminatory healthcare services in the Indigenous community of Wadeye, saying it cannot be sued over its funding decisions.
Grain producer Viterra will be ordered to pay Cargill Australia $168.9 million after a judge found the Glencore-owned company misrepresented the performance capabilities of malt producer Joe White when it sold the company for $420 million in 2013.
A class action waiver in the terms and conditions of tickets purchased by US passengers embarking on the fateful Ruby Princess cruise at the height of the first COVID-19 wave was neither unfair nor onerous, an appeals court has heard.
Food giant Cargill Australia has won its lawsuit against Glencore-owned Viterra alleging it misrepresented the performance capabilities of malt producer Joe White when it sold the company for $420 million in 2013.
Carnival has launched a challenge to last month's court finding that overseas passengers could remain group members in a class action over the 2020 Ruby Princess COVID-19 outbreak.
A judge has vacated a March hearing in a class action against cruise operator Carnival over last year's Ruby Princess COVID-19 outbreak, a week after resolving an almost year-long dispute about whether overseas passengers could be part of the proceeding.
Cruise operator Carnival has lost its bid to exclude US and UK passengers from a class action over the 2020 Ruby Princess COVID-19 outbreak, with a judge finding the Federal Court was not a "clearly inappropriate forum" to hear the dispute.
A unit of Oaktree Capital Management has been ordered to join all former shareholders of consumer brand wholesaler Marlin Brands as defendants in a case over the investment giant's $200 million acquisition of the company that alleges fraud or wilful deceit on the part of the sellers.
A tax agent and accountant who conducted multiple tax exploitation schemes between 2011 and 2015 has been hit with a $22.7 million penalty, the largest ever against a tax promotor.