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A judge has awarded four sample group members in the Queensland floods class action $1.28 million in compensation, finding that charitable payments did not affect the amount of interest payable on the damages they are owed.
A shareholder class action against Crown Resorts can access transcripts of interviews conducted by the Victorian gaming regulator with former top brass and two Crown employees who were arrested in China in 2016 as part of a crackdown on gambling
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.
The judge overseeing the first ever bid for a group costs order in a class action that will give the plaintiff's law firm a percentage cut of the proceeds has urged the firm to rethink characterising its own solicitor as an expert.
As the no win, no fee model comes out on top in another high profile class action beauty contest, legal experts say third-party litigation funders will need to evolve and "fight back" to stay competitive.
A judge has found he has power to order that opt out notices be sent to a limited number of Boral shareholders eligible to join two class actions that faced off last month in a class action beauty parade.
NSW public sector employees have lost their bid for a 2.5 per cent salary increase, with an appeals court upholding a decision which found the economy would be better served by public spending on infrastructure investment than public service salaries.
NSW Health has hit back at a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors, saying that because they did not submit an overtime claim they were taken to have worked the additional hours “of their own volition”.
Two law firms bringing competing class actions against insurance giant Allianz have proposed to resolve the duplication by jointly running just one of the cases, but the judge overseeing the litigation needs convincing, she said Friday.
A Federal Court class action against two NAB units over $6.3 billion in super funds is on hold after lawyers for the applicant filed an appeal of a ruling that found their state court proceeding had been invalidly commenced.