7-Eleven has reached an in-principle agreement to settle two class actions which accused the convenience store giant of misleading franchisees and underpaying employees at its stores.
Victorian electric utility Sumo Power has been fined $1.2 million for luring customers with the promise of discounts and low rates only to jack up their prices months later.
Combining extensive experience in commercial law with a keen pursuit of public interest cases, Marque Lawyers partner Kiera Peacock has her sights set on using the law for good.
Payday lender Cigno has lost its appeal of a ruling which upheld ASIC’s first product intervention order banning the use of short-term lending models with “excessive” fees.
A fight is looming over a bid by S&P Global for a class action applicant to pay security for the legal costs of defending the litigation, with the applicant arguing it shouldn’t have to fork over anything.
Trial in the defamation case by accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has been adjourned for three weeks after COVID-19 restrictions prevented witnesses from travelling to Sydney and national security concerns were raised regarding Afghani witnesses set to give evidence.
In a win for a long-running class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of owners of 70,000 vehicles, a judge has found that cars installed with PowerShift transmissions were defective.
The ACCC has lost its regulatory action against NSW Ports alleging a 50-year agreement with the state, signed when Port Botany and Port Kembla were privatised in 2013, was anti-competitive.
If not for a “sliding doors moment” experienced soon after graduating university, Slater and Gordon class action practice group leader Andrew Paul could have ended up on a very different career path.
Liberal party politician Andrew Laming has hit ABC Four Corners journalist Louise Milligan with a defamation lawsuit over allegedly “sensational, accusatory and spiteful” tweets intended to “irrevocably damage” his reputation.