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A judge has hit Qantas with a $90 million penalty for unlawfully outsourcing its ground crew staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the airline was “the wrong kind of sorry”.
A judge has signed off on a $59 million settlement in a class action accusing five banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging, while bemoaning the failure of successive attorneys-general to advance reforms clarifying the court’s power to make class closure orders.
EY may seek damages against rival consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal after it won preliminary discovery to pursue possible claims over a mass departure of partners and staff from its international tax practice.
Seven Network has secured a suppression order over court documents ahead of mediation in a lawsuit lodged by a long-time producer, with a judge agreeing media access to the case may “imperil” the settlement talks.
In a major win for two class actions and Fortnite maker Epic Games, a judge has found that Apple and Google misused their market power in running app stores and in-app purchase systems.
A judge that granted carriage of a Google ad tech class action to Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald has reiterated concerns that such cooperative arrangements between firms could breach competition law.
A judge has spiked Piper Alderman's class action alleging Google abuses its dominance in digital advertising, favouring a competing case run jointly by two other firms, despite suggesting such arrangements hinted at lawyers “passing the prize around”.
Kmart is facing legal action to determine whether the retail giant has engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct over alleged forced labour of members of a Chinese ethnic minority group.
With evidence finally in after six years, Lendlease has asked a court to reject a portion of a shareholder class action’s expert reply evidence, arguing it unfairly introduces a new and unforeseen loss methodology.
A former member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has failed to convince a judge her salary should still have been paid after she accepted a job as a deputy judge in the UK.