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A litigation funder challenging a decision underpinning recently enacted rules that require class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes told an appeals court Wednesday the decision was plainly wrong and the regime unworkable.
A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.
The Twigg family has hit accounting firm Pitcher Partners with a lawsuit claiming it helped Max Twigg, race car driver and former owner of the Byron Bay Hotel, misappropriate $127.8 million in family trust money for himself.
The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation.
The state of Queensland has brought a "hopeless" defence in a $2.5 million suit alleging a Federal Circuit judge unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt after he failed to comply with an order for particulars, a court has heard.
Forex Capital Trading liquidators have won an “urgent” bid for orders allowing them to distribute $69.5 million to 8,600 former customers of the derivatives trader which allegedly gave misleading advice on products described as “little more than gambling”.
Insurer Bond & Credit Company has denied it owes damages over the collapse of the Greensill group, saying it issued a trade credit policy at the centre of four lawsuits because the supply chain financing firm concealed its risks and made fraudulent misrepresentations.
A judge has found that Uniden infringed rival GME’s design patent for a handheld radio, derailing the company's plan for an Australian launch of two products.
A shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates has won access to information said to prove there were reduced wine sales in the United States, with a judge finding the wine producer's redactions of board papers were “not justified”.
A unit of Suncorp Group has reached an in-principle settlement in a class action over alleged conflicted remuneration on the first day of an expected 25-day trial.