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The litigation funder that backed a class action brought on behalf of Indigenous workers seeking to recover unpaid wages wants a 20 per cent commission from the settlement. But it faces pushback from the government of Western Australia, which has agreed to pay group members up to $165 million.
Fleet management company FleetPartners has been stung with a shareholder class action over a revised 2019 earnings guidance that doomed its planned merger with McMillan Shakespeare.
The Australian arm of global CEO advisory firm Teneo has rejected claims in a lawsuit by the former head of the company's APAC talent advisory division that it forced her to work unreasonable hours and says it fired her for "serious and wilful" misconduct.
An investigation is underway against US medical device maker Exactech on behalf of patients who allegedly received faulty hip, knee or ankle implants.
AustralianSuper has admitted that it contravened superannuation regulations when it failed to merge the accounts of members who had multiple accounts, but says it has remediated affected customers more than $69 million.
South Australian MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked a court to throw out a "misconceived" lawsuit by a former staffer accusing her of bullying, saying she is not an 'employer' under the Fair Work Act.
Plaintiff law firm Shine Lawyers has succeeded in narrowing the services an early learning services chain can register its 'Shine Advantage' trade mark for.
A judge has approved the first settlement in dozens of negligence cases against the Minister for Home Affairs on behalf of refugees detained by the Australian government on the island of Nauru.
The former Indian High Commissioner to Australia has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman who toiled in his Canberra home for less than $10 per day for over a year, with a judge finding he could not avail himself of diplomatic immunity to avoid liability.
BHP has won its argument that shareholders who did not purchase their stock while trading on one of the three exchanges on which the mining giant is listed are excluded from a securities class action over the collapse of a Brazil tailings dam.