Coles and Woolworths estimate they will need to remediate underpaid workers up to $780 million, following a complex judgment in two class actions and regulatory proceedings handed down last week.
A judge has criticised the “unacceptably complex” trial of two regulatory cases and two underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths, delivering a ruling whose significance for the workers is not yet clear.
A judge will hit pause on two class actions against Coles and Woolworths over allegedly illusory discounts after hearing a bid to bind group members to the findings in related proceedings by the ACCC.
A judge overseeing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has raised concerns about a bid to bind group members to findings in similar cases by the ACCC.
One of two law firms running competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has bowed out, leaving its rival to pursue the cases for consumers.
Real estate fund manager Charter Hall has secured leases for 90 per cent of its $850 million Light Horse logistics hub in Eastern Creek, Western Sydney.
Property investor ISPT has snapped up a 2.9 hectare shopping plaza in the Townsville suburb of Burdell, anticipating major growth in the area. On Thursday ISPT announced it had acquired Woolworths-anchored shopping precinct North Shore Marketplace from property fund manager Clarence Property, in an off-market deal through its retail property trust, IRAPT. ISPT fund manager…
Newcastle council’s concerns about the street appeal of a Woolworths development have been brushed aside, with a court finding that reasonable minds may differ on the question of ‘high visual quality.’ On Tuesday, Justice John Robson of the NSW Land and Environment Court granted the development approval sought by Woolworths’ development unit Fabcot Pty Ltd,…
A second law firm has lodged class actions against Coles and Woolworths on the back of the consumer regulator’s claims that the supermarket giants’ discount campaigns were misleading.
Two law firms that were set to run competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts have reached an in-principle agreement to collaborate.