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The lead applicant in a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts will ask the Federal Court to declare the proceedings a priority matter so that lawyers readying the case for an upcoming trial in Melbourne can access childcare despite stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria.
The courts are to be congratulated for swiftly adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic by introducing virtual hearings, but barristers told Lawyerly they were raring to get back to in-person hearings, and cited numerous disadvantages of holding complex matters online.
Domino's is seeking to strike out portions of the "rolled up, confusing pleading" in a class action over alleged worker underpayments, saying the case cannot be brought under the consumer law.
A date has been set in Domino’s bid to strike out parts of the statement of claim in a class action alleging franchisees underpaid thousands of workers across Australia for five years.
Crown Resorts has successfully challenged a ruling allowing law firm Maurice Blackburn to communicate with 18 formerly jailed employees to gather evidence in its shareholder class action against the casino giant.
A court has found Australia Post breached the employment contract of a compensation manager dismissed after "likely" threats by the CEPU resulted in the cancellation of a project targeting thousands of injured postal workers.
Companies and other defendants forked over big sums last year to settle more than 20 class actions, with a total of at least $734 million being paid out. Here are the top 10 class action settlements and the law firms and funders that negotiated them.
The Federal Court has imposed a higher-end penalty of $270,000 on the CFMEU and three officers for site obstruction, saying the union has “significant resources” and has demonstrated a “willingness to contravene industrial laws in a serious way”.
Pizza chain Domino's has been blasted for redactions in documents it has produced in a class action over worker pay, with a judge warning the franchisor that it could not act as "judge and jury" in deciding what information could be given to the applicant.
The Federal Court has rejected an "unusual" confidentiality regime proposed by Domino's Pizza Enterprises which would have resulted in restricted access to discovered documents for the funder backing the class action against the global fast food giant.