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There is a time for everything, as Ecclesiastes says, but who has time for class actions that plead everything and the kitchen sink, a vexed judge wants to know, calling on litigants to home in on the real contest in their cases.
A judge has ruled that building materials giant Boral breached its continuous disclosure obligations, in a win for a class action, but will wait on the High Court's ruling in cases against CBA before deciding whether shareholders have established damages.
Pizza chain Domino's has confirmed that it will appeal a judge's finding that it misled franchisees on the pay its workers were entitled to, leaving them shortchanged.
A judge has rejected Domino's bid for a 30 per cent reduction in the costs it owes after losing an underpayments class action, saying the pizza chain will likely be on the hook for around $10 million in costs.
As proof of its popularity as a class action jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Victoria will hear opening submissions in three class action trials on Monday, an unprecedented number in a single day for the court.
By the time Australia's emissions targets were set in 2015, the effects of climate change were already being felt in the Torres Strait, the Commonwealth has told an appeals court, saying a class action over Islanders' cultural loss can't prove causation.
The law of negligence should be expanded to recognise cultural loss as a compensable form of harm, a group of Torres Strait Islanders argue in challenging a ruling tossing their class action against the government.
After waiting three-and-a-half years for judgment and winning on “close to everything”, a class action against Domino’s over staff wages is "very likely" to face an appeal, with retiring Justice Bernard Murphy vowing to make final orders and not hand the "mess" over to another judge.
Hotly contested political issues should not be considered a judicial "no-go zone" that leaves policy decisions on climate change outside the reach of the courts, a landmark class action has told an appeals court.
The Northern Territory has been hit with a class action over the alleged discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal Community Police Officers.