Judges

A judge has signed off on a $98 million settlement in two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven, but has yet to reach a decision on $19.6 million in legal costs and a $25 million funding commission, which a court-appointed contradictor has urged him to reject.

Colonial First State will pay $56.3 million to settle a class action that accused the wealth management group of delaying the transfer of $3.2 billion in customer funds to low cost MySuper accounts.

Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has been ordered to pay more than $160,000 to a former general manager who was found by a court to have been the victim of a "campaign of denigration" by one of the firm's founders.

Two heavyweight plaintiff firms battled it out Friday to run a shareholder class action against Beach Energy, with Shine Lawyers saying it should be rewarded for setting the price of the contingency fees sought in the case and Slater & Gordon arguing it has a better track record in class actions.

Aircraft engineers for Qantas have lost a challenge to a ruling that the airline had no "genuine choice" when it stood them down in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A case before the Full Court that will revisit the question of whether class actions are managed investment schemes may not resolve all of the funding controversies that have emerged in a class action against franchise giant Retail Food Group, a court has heard.

Mercedes-Benz will defend ACCC proceedings alleging it exposed consumers to serious injury or death by failing to comply with obligations under a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags by arguing the recall was invalid.

A barrister who has sued Nine over its coverage of her battle for custody of famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle has accused the media company of seeking to delay filing a response to the lawsuit so that it can 'fish' for a defence.

The High Court has declined special leave to members of the Victorian Labor party to challenge a judge’s finding that the pre-selection of ALP candidates in Victorian electorates by federal administrators during their takeover of the state party was lawful.

A judge has declined to award costs against a group of nurses who recently dropped their Fair Work lawsuit against Monash Health, saying the case was not "doomed to fail" and noting the “extremity” of the Victorian government’s vaccine mandate for workers.