A judge overseeing a superannuation class action against two Westpac units that settled for $30 million has flagged the possibility of appointing a contradictor to examine the litigation funder’s claimed cut of the settlement, which includes a deduction of over $1 million to cover the costs of after-the-event insurance.
Sunshine Loans has lost its bid to have the Full Court weigh in on ASIC’s authority to seek penalties for Credit Code violations, in proceedings accusing the online lender of charging over $320,000 in prohibited fees.
The High Court has rejected an appeal by a mortgage broker in a saga stretching back a decade, when the corporate regulator imposed a lifelong ban against the broker for failing to disclose a conviction on his credit licence application.
A judge has ordered Google and Microsoft to provide a social media influencer with identity information for a host of Gmail and Outlook accounts, after a months-long campaign of alleged malicious messages directed at the influencer’s business partners.
A judge overseeing five lawsuits seeking compensation on behalf of AFL players who allegedly suffered brain injuries has set the stage for a class action beauty parade, as one law firm flags a possible sixth action.
Facebook has agreed to pay a $20 million penalty for misleading consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private, when in fact it was being collected for commercial use.
Optus has agreed to rebrand products that Boost Tel claimed had infringed on its trade marks, in a settlement of the rivals’ intellectual property spat.
A litigation funder that bankrolled a photographer’s unsuccessful copyright claim against CoreLogic has appealed a ruling ordering if to pay indemnity costs to the property data analytics company.
Pop star Katy Perry has appealed her loss in a long-running trade mark fight with an Australian fashion designer over the right to use her name to sell clothing in Australia.
A shareholder class action against KPMG and the directors of defunct mining company CuDeco is seeking insurance information and a limited number of documents from the directors ahead of mediation, to avoid a “train wreck” of a case, a court has heard.