A former QC who is now a judge on the Victorian Supreme Court judge has been hit with costs following a ruling that he and a law firm acquired by Russell Kennedy provided negligent advice to a former client on a land purchase contract.
A judge weighing a $38.4 million settlement in a shareholder class action against aged care provider Estia Health has been told that two NSW Court of Appeal judgments barring class closure were “plainly wrong”, but in deciding whether to lock group members out of the settlement the judge says he won’t need to grapple with the landmark rulings.
A judge has shot down what he called a “risky” but novel proposal by 7-Eleven for a pre-trial ruling on sample objections to the relevance of evidence in two franchise class actions.
A judge has hit caravan manufacturer Jayco with a $75,000 penalty in proceedings launched by the ACCC, finding the company made a false or misleading representation to a customer about their consumer guarantee rights.
The Western Australian state government has hit back at a class action brought by Indigenous workers seeking to recover unpaid wages, saying there was no breach of duty because the law at the time allowed the workers to be employed without pay.
ASIC has won a $20 million judgment against derivative trader Forex CT for using “unfair” sales tactics and misleading clients into making trades from which the company would benefit even when they had informed their adviser they had limited financial resources.
A $440 million settlement by the State of Queensland and dam operator Sunwater resolving a class action over the 2011 Queensland floods has been approved by a NSW judge.
A unit of coal mining company Futura Resources has failed to convince the Full Federal Court to allow it to register a 2012 coking coal mine investigation conducted in Central Queensland for a research and development tax offset.
Qantas has secured a temporary injunction from a Singapore court blocking a former company executive from starting a new position at competitor Virgin Australia.
The Australian Law Reform Commission has suggested judges should transfer applications for their own disqualification to a separate duty judge to decide, after hearing concerns about how the “bias blind spot” may operate in the existing self-disqualification procedure.