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‘Deliberate exploitation’: On The Run fined $65k for denying worker meal and toilet breaks
The employing entity for convenience store chain On The Run has been slapped with a penalty of almost $65,000 for underpaying and failing to provide a worker with meal and toilet breaks, with a judge chastising the company's "deliberate exploitation of a low paid hard working employee".
VW rightly hit with $125M fine after ‘starving’ judge of evidence, court told
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.
Law firm hit with indemnity costs for opt out error in Toyota class action
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.
Corrs ‘mistake’ doesn’t doom ‘potentially quite significant’ evidence in Ford class action
A judge has granted a mid-trial bid to bring in "potentially quite significant" new evidence in a class action against Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmissions, finding the failure to file the material earlier was not deliberate but a "mistake" on the part of the lead applicant's solicitors at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
Ford docs don’t contain trade secrets, class action judge says
The judge hearing a class action trial against Ford over its allegedly defective Powershift transmission has rejected the car maker's argument that certain documents should be suppressed because they hold trade secrets, saying Ford did not invent the 6 Sigma problem solving method on which some of the reports were based.
Allianz hit with class action over ‘junk’ car insurance
Insurance giant Allianz is facing a class action over allegedly “poor value” or worthless car and motorcycle insurance products.
Lead applicant breaks down during cross-examination in Ford class action trial
The lead applicant in a class action against Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmission broke down after being accused of lying under oath during a heated virtual cross-examination by the car company's barrister.
Ford cars fitted with PowerShift are ‘lemons’, court hears as high-stakes trial revs up
Tens of thousands of Ford cars which contain an allegedly defective transmission system are “lemons”, a court heard on day one of a six-week hearing in a long-running class action against the car maker.
Litigation funder wins access to docs in parking patent dispute against City of Melbourne
The funder backing a patent lawsuit by tech firm Vehicle Management Systems over an invention used by the City of Melbourne to time parked vehicles has been granted extended access to discovered documents in the proceedings.
Court suppresses details of Grosvenor, Vannin co-funding agreement
A court has granted a request from Grosvenor Litigation Services, the funder that backed two class actions against Volkswagen over its emissions cheating scandal, to suppress the details of a co-funding agreement with Vannin Capital.