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Class action can grill Boral boss over email reference to EY’s dismal take on US biz
Trials 2024-09-10 3:13 pm By Christine Caulfield

Boral’s former CEO Michael Kane can be questioned at trial over a reference he made in an email to findings by EY about the building material group’s poor performing US windows business, despite claims that the findings were privileged.

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Judge rejects NAB’s bid for class closure in Walton class action
Class Actions 2024-09-03 1:43 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge overseeing an $100 million class action against NAB over the collapse of Walton Construction has rejected the bank’s bid for soft class closure ahead of mediation.

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Judge assails ‘widespread’ practice of inappropriately broad suppression bids
Employment 2024-08-22 11:00 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Publishing reasons for refusing an application by Super Retail Group to redact parts of its former chief legal officer’s case, a judge has called out the practice of “extensive” suppression applications despite the exhortations of courts that justice must be open.

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Second Super Retail whistleblower comes forward, as court rejects bid to redact lawyer’s case
Employment 2024-08-14 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Super Retail Group has lost a bid to suppress parts of a case by former chief legal officer and company secretary Rebecca Farrell, who says she was sacked in May following complaints of corporate goverance issues, as a second senior employee steps up to back her former colleague’s claims.

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Repped by firm on winning streak, Boral takes shareholder class action to trial
Trials 2024-08-12 11:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

Buoyed by the recent trial success of CBA and other companies facing shareholder ire, building materials giant Boral is taking its chances at a hearing in a class action alleging disclosure breaches linked to its US windows business.

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‘Suboptimal’: Judge takes Monsanto to task for its approach in Roundup class action
Class Actions 2024-08-09 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

Deciding an “unusually difficult” costs application, a judge has declined to award Monsanto all of its costs for defending a class action alleging its Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic, saying the agrochemical giant should have pushed harder for a split trial. 

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Allens, Harmers in crosshairs of Super Retail’s feud with former chief legal officer
Employment 2024-08-07 11:49 pm By Sam Matthews

Super Retail Group has made a bid to disqualify the solicitors of its former chief legal officer, who has sued the company to enforce an alleged settlement. But the Rebel Sport owner may have to defend a duelling application to disqualify its own solicitors, from Big Six firm Allens.

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Firm to foot Monsanto’s legal bill in Roundup class action, but costs order limited
Class Actions 2024-07-31 11:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Plaintiff firm Maurice Blackburn will foot the bill for the unsuccessful class action against Monsanto over weed killer Roundup, but the company’s reluctance to split the trial in two has come back to bite it.

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Monsanto defeats class action alleging weed killer Roundup causes cancer
Class Actions 2024-07-25 4:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic but did not go so far as to say it definitively does not cause cancer, while also dressing down the lawyers for both sides for causing delays in the case.

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McDonald’s opposes ‘skewed’ employee samples in underpayments class action
Class Actions 2024-07-22 3:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

McDonald’s has raised concerns about a “skewed” sample of employees for the initial trial in a class action alleging the fast food giant denied shift managers compensation for pre- and post-shift work.

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