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Full Court awards $24.5M commission to 7-Eleven class action funder
Appeals 2024-05-02 3:33 pm By Sam Matthews

The Full Federal Court has found the court’s recently-affirmed power to make common fund orders at settlement means the litigation funder that backed two class actions against 7-Eleven is entitled to a $24.5 million cut from a $98 million settlement, in a decision that slammed the parties for a settlement approval process that “went off the rails”, costing group members $2.5 million.

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Lehrmann flags possible appeal, must produce funding info for costly defamation case
Appeals 2024-05-01 11:44 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bruce Lehrmann has been given extra time to file any appeal of a ruling he raped colleague Brittany Higgins but in the meantime the former political staffer must hand over information on who funded his defamation case against Network Ten, which is likely to see him on the hook for millions of dollars in costs.

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Funder hit with costs of failed IP case over parking detection patent
Intellectual Property 2024-05-01 3:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The litigation funder that bankrolled a patent infringement case by a vehicle monitoring systems manufacturer is on the hook for legal costs after technology company SARB succeeded in appealing a finding that it infringed the IP for a parking detection system used by the City of Melbourne. 

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Refugee’s appeal fails over hotel detention found by court to ‘lack humanity’
Human Rights 2024-04-26 2:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Kurdish refugee has lost his appeal seeking compensation for being kept in makeshift hotel detention centres for 14 months after a judge found the detention lacked “human decency” but was not unlawful.

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Qatar Airways passengers appeal dismissal of strip search case against airline
Appeals 2024-04-24 11:24 pm By Christine Caulfield

Five passengers who were forced off a Qatar Airways flight and strip searched at Doha International Aiport have appealed a ruling summarily tossing their claims against the airline.

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Aussie Skips accepts cartel conviction but will fight $3.5M penalty
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-04-24 1:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Aussie Skips is not appealing a finding that it engaged in serious criminal cartel conduct but will challenge the size of the $3.5 million penalty, a court has been told.

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Judge warns wealth guru Dominique Grubisa to look ‘elsewhere’ in bid to stay ACCC case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-04-23 12:51 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Sydney lawyer and wealth guru Dominique Grubisa is challenging a finding in an ACCC case that her seminars made misleading statements and has sought to pause the court action until her appeal is heard, a bid a judge has warned won’t be “favourably received” by him.

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FWC showed no bias in Mantle Group case despite ‘harsh’ remark, says Full Court
Employment 2024-04-22 3:10 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A subsidiary of hospitality giant Mantle Group has failed to set aside a Fair Work Commission decision finding it systematically underpaid employees and gave “knowingly false” evidence, with an appeals court refusing to find the decision gave rise to the appearance of bias.

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High Court to decide if new duty of care for NSW builders is apportionable
Construction 2024-04-18 11:03 pm By Sam Matthews

The High Court is set to weigh in on a challenge to a precedent-setting decision that found breaches of statutory duty under a provision of the Design and Building Practitioners Act are not apportionable, in a case with significant ramifications for the NSW construction industry.

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Not ‘plainly wrong’: NSW appeals court sticks to guns on class closure
Class Actions 2024-04-17 1:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The NSW Court of Appeal has said it has no power to exclude group members who do not sign up to a class action from participating in a settlement, upholding a controversial decision that the Full Federal Court said was “plainly wrong”. 

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