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The directors of steel giant Arrium, which collapsed owing $4 billion in debts, should have known earlier that the company was in a "liquidity crisis" and was trading while insolvent, liquidators for the company allege.
A judge has indicated that he will allow Arrium Group's liquidator to give expert evidence at an upcoming trial in proceedings against the steel giant's former directors over its $4 billion collapse, despite his other role as a party in the case.
A judge has refused a bid to bring claims against law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in one of three lawsuits that will soon head to trial over the $4 billion collapse of steel giant Arrium Group.
A lawyer for group members in a class action against Toyota is seeking aggregate damages relating to vehicle defects that allegedly had a "significant impact" on fuel consumption.
A judge has rejected a bid by car giant Toyota to provide unsolicited submissions to a court-appointed referee tasked with determining technical questions in the case, saying the application was the first he'd ever seen in 30 years.
An error in an opt out notice sent to motorists eligible to sign up for a class action over allegedly defective diesel filters in Toyota vehicles has left a class action law firm on the hook for indemnity costs to cover a new notice to group members.
A judge overseeing a shareholder class action against collapsed engineering group RCR Tomlinson has said goodbye to the common fund order in the case while welcoming last year's High Court decision preventing these orders from being made at the early stage in class actions.
Responding to a class action on behalf of over 250,000 car owners, auto giant Toyota has admitted issues with filters in three of its diesel vehicle models but says drivers who failed to respond to warning lights in their cars could not clam damages for any breaches of quality guarantees.
A challenge by Quinn Emanuel to a NSW Supreme Court decision staying its shareholder class action against AMP has been unanimously dismissed by the Court of Appeal, which found the class action beauty contest was not decided in error and that subsequently filed representative proceedings were not an abuse of process.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has failed in its challenge to a ruling that dismissed its bid-rigging case over mining exploration licences involving Cascade Coal and the sons of jailed Labor politician Eddie Obeid.