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Clyde & Co lures lawyer back from Gilchrist Connell
Business of Law 2025-10-31 11:28 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Clyde & Co has boosted its corporate insurance and commercial offering by luring a partner from Gilchrist Connell. 

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‘Very concerned’: Judge wants to hear from late EML class action members
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:48 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has adjourned a hearing seeking approval of a $37.35 million settlement in a shareholder class action against EML Payments over concerns about the exclusion of late registrants and claims.

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NSW Police to appeal ruling in strip search class action
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The NSW government is planning to appeal a ruling that ordered it to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip search at music festivals.

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Herald Sun wants to shut down Groth privacy case before trial
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-10-30 11:07 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The publisher of the Herald Sun has filed a strike-out application against novel privacy claims by the wife of Victorian Liberals’ deputy leader Sam Groth, saying it was exempt as a news outlet.

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Class action can encourage Dillwynia inmates to sign up, court says
Personal injury 2025-10-30 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class action by inmates in the Dillwynia Women’ s Correctional Centre who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a corrections officer can send a notice encouraging — but not requiring — group members to sign up.

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IVF rebate class action faces bid to cut egg donors from case
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:10 pm By Sam Matthews

The federal government has flagged its intention to bring a strike-out application to narrow the group member definition in a class action by single women and same-sex couples who were denied Medicare rebates for IVF.

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Calibre can’t get docs from owners in $356M Werribee shopping centre suit
Retail 2025-10-31 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Engineering firm Calibre can’t get minutes of meetings involving Probuild and the owners of the Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria to defend itself in $356 million defects suit.

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Subcontractor to intervene in case over DOCA for Roberts Co’s Victorian arm
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-10-31 11:33 pm By Sam Matthews

One of 50 subcontractors left unpaid after Victoria’s Department of Education nixed three construction project contracts with failed builder Roberts Co (VIC) is set to join in proceedings seeking declarations under a deed of company arrangement. 

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Chat about crane hire did not amount to ‘construction contract’, court finds
Construction 2025-10-31 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has set aside a SOPA determination after finding a verbal conversation between a developer and a crane supplier did not constitute a construction contract.

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Court to hear class action firm’s novel application to vary GCO rate
Class Actions 2025-10-29 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge will appoint a contradictor to weigh in on a class action’s novel bid to vary the rate of a group costs order, just two months after the court approved a lower rate than was sought by the firm that’s running the case.

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