A court has ruled that a litigation funder backing an unsuccessful real estate lawsuit by two broke plaintiffs must cover the legal costs after finding that the funder’s goals in the case were “more to serve its own commercial and financial ends” than to assist its clients.
Slater and Gordon’s conduct when settling a previous securities class action against it armed the lead plaintiff with the information he needed to later bring a class action against Arnold Bloch Leibler, a court has heard.
Two law firms have joined forces to investigate a potential class action against NSW Police over allegedly unlawful use of invasive searches, including strip searches.
Fuchs Lubricants is contesting a finding that it infringed patents owned by Quaker Chemicals in supplying hydraulic fluid to a BHP Billiton-owned mine.
Brisbane-based Mantle Group has become the latest hospitality company to face a possible class action for allegedly failing to pay staff for all the hours they worked.
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has been hit with an indemnity costs order for “unreasonable conduct” after its loss in last year’s pelvic mesh class action ruling, which found that the pharmaceutical giant did not adequately warn of the risks of the implants.
A former solicitor with McCabe Curwood has lost his attempt to overturn an order that he pay $36,000 in costs to his former employer, after an appeals court found that his challenge was “incompetent”.
Vocational education provider Box Hill Insitute must notify current students that their aviation course is the subject of a class action, which claims the licences students obtained through the institute did not provide them with the requisite knowledge or training to obtain a commercial pilots licence.
Spain has been hit with a lawsuit seeking to enforce a $128 million arbitration award in a dispute over the country’s alternative energy investment policies, the fifth such lawsuit brought against the country in Australia.
In its latest move aimed at shielding companies from “opportunistic class actions”, the Morrison government has announced a temporary change to the continuous disclosure rules to give companies more wriggle room in updating shareholders during the coronavirus pandemic.