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Judge mulling $38.4M Estia settlement hears class closure rulings ‘plainly wrong’
A judge weighing a $38.4 million settlement in a shareholder class action against aged care provider Estia Health has been told that two NSW Court of Appeal judgments barring class closure were “plainly wrong”, but in deciding whether to lock group members out of the settlement the judge says he won’t need to grapple with the landmark rulings.
Judge rejects 7-Eleven’s ‘risky’ bid for pre-trial ruling on objections to evidence
A judge has shot down what he called a "risky" but novel proposal by 7-Eleven for a pre-trial ruling on sample objections to the relevance of evidence in two franchise class actions.
Judge orders $75,000 penalty in ACCC’s case against Jayco
A judge has hit caravan manufacturer Jayco with a $75,000 penalty in proceedings launched by the ACCC, finding the company made a false or misleading representation to a customer about their consumer guarantee rights.
WA denies breach of duty in stolen wages class action
The Western Australian state government has hit back at a class action brought by Indigenous workers seeking to recover unpaid wages, saying there was no breach of duty because the law at the time allowed the workers to be employed without pay.
Court OKs $440M settlement in Queensland floods class action
A $440 million settlement by the State of Queensland and dam operator Sunwater resolving a class action over the 2011 Queensland floods has been approved by a NSW judge.
Futura Resources unit loses appeal of R&D tax offsets over coking coal project
A unit of coal mining company Futura Resources has failed to convince the Full Federal Court to allow it to register a 2012 coking coal mine investigation conducted in Central Queensland for a research and development tax offset.
Qantas wins eleventh hour injunction in dispute with Virgin-bound exec
Qantas has secured a temporary injunction from a Singapore court blocking a former company executive from starting a new position at competitor Virgin Australia.
Hotel quarantine security firm sues Victoria over $9.7M in unpaid invoices
The Victorian government has been hit with a lawsuit by a security firm tasked with looking after 12 hotels used in the state's troubled COVID-19 hotel quarantine program which seeks more than $9.7 million for allegedly unpaid invoices.
Law firm should rethink putting up own solicitor as expert in group costs order bid, judge says
The judge overseeing the first ever bid for a group costs order in a class action that will give the plaintiff's law firm a percentage cut of the proceeds has urged the firm to rethink characterising its own solicitor as an expert.
Clive Palmer hit with $1.5M in damages for ‘contemptuous’ infringment of Twisted Sister anthem
A judge has ordered mining magnate Clive Palmer to pay damages of $1.5 million to Universal Music for his “contemptuous” behaviour in infringing "substantial parts" of Twisted Sister's 1985 heavy metal hit 'We're Not Gonna Take It' in advertisements for his political party.