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Senior lawyers for Star Entertainment have been called out by the NSW gambling regulator for gumming up investigations with unfounded claims of legal professional privilege and misleading the National Australia Bank about transactions that used China Union Pay debit cards.
Law firms Slater & Gordon and Phi Finney McDonald are seeking a 22 per cent cut of any recovery in a consolidated shareholder class action against food company Noumi and its auditor Deloitte over $590 million in accounting irregularities.
A consolidated class action’s bid to include claims concerning dairy company a2 Milk’s disclosures to the New Zealand stock exchange is in doubt, despite broad agreement between the parties that the claims can be pursued in Victoria.
A judge overseeing the trial in a shareholder class action against chain logistics company Brambles has questioned the company's use of long-term financial forecasts.
A judge has blessed Ernst & Young’s settlement with shareholders in a class action alleging the firm, along with Pitcher Partners, approved an overly rosy year-end financial report related to Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK business Quindell.
A judge has rejected a bid by chain logistics company Brambles to allow two of its US-based witnesses to appear remotely at an upcoming trial in a shareholder class action, saying the executives should make the trip or give no evidence.
Slater & Gordon has defeated Shine Lawyers in a contest to run a shareholder class action against Beach Energy, with a judge finding Shine’s tiered contingency fee arrangement was “mere window dressing”.
Deloitte has won its bid to keep confidential documents away from the funder backing a consolidated shareholder class against food company Noumi which alleges the auditor was complicit in misleading the market.
The state of NSW faces a class action over police strip searches at music festivals that is calling for aggravated and exemplary damages for the "invasive and unlawful" treatment of hundreds of festivalgoers.
A fight over a global privilege claim by Noumi has been foreshadowed in a consolidated shareholder class action against the food company, formerly Freedom Foods.