Events

General Motors is facing a class action over Holden vehicles allegedly fitted with faulty transmission systems over the last 13 years. 

In the latest case of a ruling being reversed for copying and pasting, a judge has quashed the AAT’s decision to cancel a student visa for failing to bring an independent mind to the issues.

Shareholders in collapsed financial services firm Babcock & Brown have lost their bid to stay costs orders after losing a ten-year-old dispute.

The owners of the Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have lost their bid for preliminary discovery related to the likely recovery in their $356 million claim against builder Probuild. 

Animal health company Virbac has lost its interlocutory bid to block a generic version of its animal drug Cydectin Platinum by rival Abbey Laboratories. 

ANZ Bank New Zealand has lost its bid to appeal a ruling that common fund orders can be made in class actions, including at an early stage of the proceeding,

An intellectual property firm has lost its legal challenge to Apple's bid to patent its method of authentication on electronic devices, including smartphones.

Maurice Blackburn is stuck paying $5.4 million in security in a flex commissions class action against Macquarie, with a judge saying it represents a “business risk willingly undertaken”.

Two Queensland solicitors have scored partial wins in their decades-long disputes with the tax office because of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s “wholesale failure” to give proper reasons.