An employment class action against The Reject Shop can redefine group members and amend its claims, but not with retroactive effect that may have exposed the retailer to a case worth tens of millions of dollars.
The Reject Shop is fighting a class action’s bid to reconstitute an “empty” class in an underpayments case, saying it shouldn’t be on the hook for tens of millions in claims because of a “basic legal error” by the applicant’s lawyers.
A lawyer acting for two senior Super Retail Group employees presented a PowerPoint to solicitors for the company on the damage to its share price if his clients’ allegations went public, court filings say.
In new allegations, a former Super Retail Group exec claims she and a fellow whistleblower were threatened by CEO Anthony Heraghty at a mediation and that the company appointed a conflicted law firm to investigate her complaints.
After a judge raised concerns underpayments claims against jewellery chain Lovisa were not suitable for a group proceeding, counsel for a class action has suggested running the applicants’ case “as if” it isn’t a class action.
A judge has rejected claims from Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer that suppression orders over details of an alleged settlement should be lifted so she can respond to the company’s “defamatory” version of events in the media, calling her claims “a bare assertion”.
Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer wants to lift a suppression order covering details of a settlement she says was reached after she was dismissed from the company.
A judge hearing a suit against Lovisa has questioned whether it should proceed as a class action, but shut down a ‘pejorative remark’ by the jewellery chain’s barrister about Fair Work class actions.
A judge has rejected HSU secretary Diana Asmar’s argument that a case against her over an alleged $2.7 million false invoicing scheme should be stayed because criminal charges were “on the cards”.
Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer is fighting the dismissal of her application for performance of a settlement she says was reached following her dismissal from the company.