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The plaintiff in a class action on behalf of Sydney homeowners who allege their homes are sinking into the ground has flagged a potential fight over the funder’s cut and legal fees to be deducted from an $18 million settlement.
A judge has knocked back a class action’s bid to revise its claims against KPMG and former Arrium directors mid-trial, saying the amendments made for a "vastly different" case.
A former Macquarie director has given evidence that it would have been "prudent" for Nuix to have reduced its sales forecast, as a shareholder class action hearing over the software company's float on the ASX enters its third week.
A class action against Allergan over recalled breast implants has lost its bid to strike out the US drug company’s defence that there was no known causal link between its implants and a certain form of cancer at the time of supply.
The ATO has lost its appeal of a ruling that put it on the hook for $35 million after a judge found it received millions misappropriated by a former Kupang Resources director in order to satisfy a tax debt against him.
HWL Ebsworth has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a former partner’s case alleging the firm unlawfully discriminated against him on the basis of age when it expelled him from the partnership.
There is a time for everything, as Ecclesiastes says, but who has time for class actions that plead everything and the kitchen sink, a vexed judge wants to know, calling on litigants to home in on the real contest in their cases.
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A landowner that lost a bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property has taken its fight with the council to the High Court.
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The liquidators of GFG Alliance's Tahmoor Coal are challenging a decision over a royalties deed in favour of former owner Glencore.
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A contractor on a project in the Pilbara has lost its bid for a $1.5 million freezing order against a subcontractor, with a judge finding no evidence it would be unable to satisfy any future judgment related to their payments dispute.