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Despite noting that a class action trial and appeal were "unusual", a judge overseeing a long-running class action against Ford has refused an application to send a notice to group members about a coming appeal in the case.
The sacked boss of fleet management Orix Australia, who is seeking $1 million in unpaid leave, wants to challenge a decision allowing the company's defence that anything it owes is set off by the losses the former CEO allegedly caused.
Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model have won access to board meeting minutes and related correspondence sent to the company's top brass.
Toyota unit Hino is facing at least two class action investigations for alleged misleading representations over 20 years about the fuel consumption and emissions of its diesel vehicles.
Japanese truck maker Hino is facing a class action investigation in Australia after admitting it submitted false data on fuel emissions and fuel economy tests for many of its engine models in Japan.
Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model are seeking to access legal advice given to the car manufacturer on non-renewal notices at the heart of the case.
A court has directed a senior barrister acting in a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz to “tear up” a letter his instructing solicitors sent concerning the judge's ownership of a Mercedes vehicle, and said he was "surprised" the counsel signed off on it.
Mercedes can't access communications between Australia's peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker's decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
A judge was wrong to find that Mazda's treatment of customers with faulty vehicles was appalling but not unconscionable, and nowhere in his ruling is there an explanation for the distinction, the consumer regulator has told an appeals court.