Justice Lisa Nichols

Macquarie Capital has taken aim at the expert evidence of a shareholder class action over Nuix's IPO, saying it was "completely inadmissible" because the expert had answered legal questions that fell outside his expertise.

Hitting back at trial in a shareholder class action, software company Nuix has told a judge it was “completely unfounded” to allege auditor PwC did not push back on management’s claims about its budget.

A shareholder class action against Nuix is the first to test statutory due diligence defences available under the Corporations Act, a court heard Tuesday, when the class action took the court to internal emails describing the company as "tragically hopeless" at winning new business.

A shareholder class action against Nuix has argued that its IPO should never have gone ahead, taking the court to email exchanges about its history of disappointing results, which the tech company's former CFO called "worse than terrible".

As proof of its popularity as a class action jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Victoria will hear opening submissions in three class action trials on Monday, an unprecedented number in a single day for the court.

Real estate investment firm ISPT on Wednesday failed in its challenge to a $10.7 million stamp duty assessment, with a judge finding Victoria's revenue office was entitled to lump two acquisitions together.

A potential issue has arisen in a shareholder class action against Light & Wonder over an employee's theft of rival Aristocrat's trade secrets, with the court hearing the gaming company's $190 million settlement with Aristocrat requires it to destroy documents that could be relevant to the case.

A judge has made a group costs order that will give Maurice Blackburn one third of any recoveries in a class action against Entain, rejecting the firm's bid for a higher contingency fee rate than earmarked in its parallel Sportsbet class action. 

Publican Julian Gerner has “significantly” amended his claims in a dispute over the redevelopment of the Continental Hotel Sorrento, a court has heard.

A class action against Insurance Australia wants to add car insurance customers to the case, and says extra defence costs by IAL -- which has already spent a "disproportionate" $3 million -- shouldn't bar the new claims.