A Victoria Supreme Court judge has admonished Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon for their less than speedy progress in a consolidated shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates, after hearing that evidence would not be filed by the plaintiffs until the end of 2022.
Woolworths has agreed to pay $1.75 million in Adero Law’s legal costs as part of a settlement of an underpayments class action which will see group members recoup any amounts they are owed in a separate proceeding brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman rather than the class action.
The a2 Milk Company is paying the price for its descriptive trade name, unsuccessfully opposing registration of a trademark for Reckitt Benckiser subsidiary’s milk-based product, AII.
The a2 Milk Company is facing the prospect of a second shareholder class action over its 2021 financial guidance and subsequent downgrades following Slater & Gordon’s case earlier this month.
The former CEO of failed coconut water venture CoCo Joy, which once sponsored the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL team, faces charges he managed the company while disqualified due to bankruptcy.
Supermarket giant Woolworths will pay an additional $50 million to current and former salaried team members and has provisionally settled an underpayments class action against it.
Dairy company a2 Milk has denied liability to shareholders in a class action over its 2021 financial year guidance that preceded four earnings downgrades.
Slater & Gordon has filed a shareholder class action against the a2 Milk company over its 2021 financial year guidance, and four subsequent earnings downgrades.
The a2 Milk Company has reached a settlement in its fight against New Zealand-based Open Country’s trade mark containing the jealously guarded ‘a2’, with the rival dairy supplier dropping its successful application to register the mark.
A judge has rejected an application by the plaintiffs in two class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte to run their cases side-by-side, but said she would have granted a bid to consolidate the proceedings had that been sought.