The High Court has rejected a special leave application from a shareholder class action against BHP asking it to clarify the correct approach to construing the group member definition.
ASIC has expanded its case alleging HSBC failed to protect customers from scams, revealing a compliance manager at the bank had found that teams tasked with monitoring unauthorised transactions “had no understanding” of the liability provisions in the ePayments Code.
On the first day of a seven-week class action trial, a judge has heard that AMP Superannuation failed to renegotiate interest rates with AMP Bank for up to 12 years, despite investing as much as $2 billion in customers’ superannuation with the bank.
A Federal Court judge has criticised HSBC for failing to comply with court orders in the corporate cop’s case alleging the bank failed to protect customers from scams.
A court has approved a $64 million settlement in a consumer class action against the NAB units MLC Trustees and NULIS Nominees, with 69 per cent of the settlement sum to go to group members.
A judge has been asked to approve a $64.25 million settlement in a class action against the trustees of the MLC Super Fund, hearing the settlement, reached just prior to the dismissal of a similar class action, was on the “higher end”.
A drawn out class action against BHP has asked the High Court to clarify the correct approach to construing a group member definition, after a bid to retroactively amend the class was nixed on appeal.
BHP has asked for more time to grapple with a shareholder class action’s amended pleading, saying the changes, if allowed, threaten to derail the trial start date in September.
A judge has declined an early bid for broad discovery in a shareholder class action against tech firm WiseTech, after hearing it would require the production of “truckloads” of irrelevant material.
A class action against BHP can include in the group member definition investors who bought shares on secondary platforms, but the change can’t apply retroactively.