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CIMIC had no chance of winning stay of competing class action, judge says
A judge has ordered engineering services firm CIMIC Group to pay the costs of a 2017 attempt to stay a competing class action against it, saying the bid was one the company "could never have successfully prosecuted".
Steel giant BlueScope could face criminal charges over alleged cartel
Prosecutors are weighing criminal charges over alleged cartel conduct the subject of a price-fixing case by the ACCC against BlueScope Steel and former general manager of sales Jason Ellis, a judge has revealed in rejecting a bid by the competition watchdog to suppress details of its case.
CIMIC attacks ‘forests of contingencies’ in class action pleadings
Engineering services firm CIMIC Group has attacked the pleadings in a shareholder class action against it, saying needlessly convoluted paragraphs containing a "numerically vast number of contingencies" should be struck out.