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 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.
Insurance law firm Wotton + Kearney has opened its seventh office across Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Adelaide to meet local client demand and allow lawyers to work from their home town after the pandemic.
Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority may be hit with a class action over alleged systemic failures in its ambulance call handling operations that may have led to at least 15 deaths.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will bring its second bid to dismiss a case brought by customers who claim they were the victims of “cuckoo-smurfing” and had funds seized as proceeds of crime because the bank breached its anti-money laundering obligations.
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”.