After being hit by a $200 million claim in Australia, infant formula company Care A2 Plus is asking the court to block US business partner Gensco from filing a second lawsuit in its home country, which it says is intended to “harass and split the resources” of CAP and its directors.
A court has found the managing director of teahouse franchise Chatime liable for the underpayment of staff, despite accepting that he believed the company’s wage system was not unlawful.
Australian infant formula company Care A2 Plus has hit back at a $200 million lawsuit by US business partner Gensco, arguing the distributor did not properly execute the agreement at the heart of the dispute as allegations of phantom companies fly.
IG Markets has been hit with a second class action for offering “highly risky and unsuitable financial products” to retail investors, with a third competing proceeding in the works.
The Federal Court has granted a bid by plaintiffs in competing class actions against Downer EDI to transfer their cases to the Victoria Supreme Court, where a four-way contest will take place.
The High Court has dismissed a constitutional appeal by Irish insurer Zurich, clearing the way for a class action over an allegedly defective New Zealand apartment block to proceed in the NSW Supreme Court.
Piper Alderman has strengthened its real estate team, appointing a former Holding Redlich partner to its Brisbane office.
A judge has resigned before delivering judgment in litigation that went to trial in 2020, and the colleague assigned the unenviable task of issuing a ruling has taken a swipe at his departing peer, noting the absence of medical or other evidence to explain her “unwillingness” to see the case through.
A Federal Court judge overseeing a class action against IG Markets over risky financial products has questioned whether courts should take a “more robust” approach to avoid the “nonsense” of competing class actions, amid the threat of a second class action being filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Online trading platform IG Markets is facing more scrutiny over its marketing of risky financial products, with a third law firm investigating a class action for everyday investors who have lost money.