Facing the threat of regulatory action and a possible class action, Flight Centre will refund thousands of customers who were charged a $300 fee for cancelling travel plans because of government restrictions to combat the coronavirus.
Law firm K&L Gates has been hit with a $3 million lawsuit by former clients alleging breaches of duty of care and fiduciary duties after a Victorian Supreme Court loss in a joint venture dispute.
The top judge of the Federal Court plans to clear the schedules of three judges at the start of next year so they can hear and decide Johnson & Johnson’s challenge of a class action ruling that found its pelvic mesh devices were defective and awarded the lead applicants $2.6 million in damages.
Global winemaker and distributor Treasury Wine Estates has been hit with a second class action over an earnings downgrade made in January this year, setting the stage for a possible fight between the law firms leading the proceedings.
Bob Jane will give franchisees at least six months’ notice before terminating their agreements, after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said the tyre retail chain was likely flouting the law by failing to do so.
The identity of a Big Six partner to whom a former AMP lawyer allegedly criticised her superior has been revealed in court during a heated exchange between the barristers in the unfair dismissal proceeding.
Law firm Mills Oakley and a firm partner are facing a lawsuit alleging they violated their duty of care by transferring nearly $1 million in client funds to the wrong account after being duped by false emails purporting to be from a representative of one of the firm’s clients.
ISignthis has come up short in its courtroom bid to block publication of the Australian Stock Exchange’s “damaging” reasons for suspending its shares.
Investigations by ASIC led to prosecutors laying 279 criminal charges in the last six months of 2019, an increase of 300 percent on the previous six months, the corporate watchdog’s latest report reveals.
The Fair Work Commission has lavished praise on a Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer for his persuasive advocacy skills in representing transport company Greyhound in unfair dismissal proceedings.