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Facebook and Google have been hit with a class action alleging their 2018 decisions to ban advertising of cryptocurrencies breached competition laws.
A former Qantas customer service manager has appealed a ruling blocking her from pursuing a disability discrimination case against Maurice Blackburn alleging the law firm put pressure on her to settle her workers compensation case against the airline.
Google’s open letter to Australians, containing dire warnings about the effects of a proposed news media bargaining code, is misleading, the head of Australia’s consumer watchdog has said.
The judge overseeing ASIC's case against logistics provider GetSwift cannot draw any inferences against the company because directors Bane Hunter and Joel Macdonald did not give evidence at trial, GetSwift's barrister has said during closing submissions in the case.
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.
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.
A judge has criticised a revised opt out notice in a class action against Suncorp over allegedly conflicted remuneration and again slammed the funder backing the case for sending a "disturbing" letter to group members contrived to achieve a commercial advantage.
An appeals court has been urged to uphold a judge's $125 million penalty against Volkswagen in the ACCC's case over the car maker's emissions cheating, with a court-appointed contradictor saying the judge was "starved" of the information he required to assess whether a $75 million agreement brokered by the consumer watchdog was reasonable.
The majority shareholder in insurance broker Coverforce has won its bid to use documents from an existing lawsuit over the company's $25 million acquisition of Suncorp unit Resilium in new proceedings it intends to bring.
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.