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Law firm Levitt Robinson is poised to bring a class action against the Western Australia government on behalf of detainees in the state's Banksia Hill detention centre as reports of excessive use of force and restraints emerge.
The former chief executive of Commonwealth Bank has told a court internal auditors raised issues with CBA's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance four years before AUSTRAC took action that saw the bank's share price plummet.
Medibank is facing another class action investigation over a massive data breach that left the personal information of almost 10 million customers exposed, just days after criminals began publishing sensitive customer health data.
A class action against KPMG over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania can't add new claims against the accounting firm three months out from trial.
The High Court has granted special leave to Irish insurer Zurich to challenge a decision allowing a class action over an allegedly defective New Zealand apartment block to proceed in the NSW Supreme Court.
The litigation funder bankrolling a class action on behalf of 383 apartment owners in Sydney’s troubled Opal Tower is seeking a 26 per cent commission totalling $13.2 million of the confidential settlement sum, a court has heard.
Nuix has pointed the finger at its accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers in the software company's defence to a class action over a prospectus for its $1.8 billion IPO two years ago.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has argued that disclosing its money laundering failures before AUSTRAC brought proceedings would have misled the market, as the bank takes the rare move of defending a shareholder class action at trial.
A judge overseeing a class action over AMP’s fees for no service practice has dismissed the applicant’s bid to access communications between AMP and law firm Clayton Utz that led up to an ostensibly independent report that allegedly went through 25 rounds of edits with the wealth manager's inhouse lawyers.
The New South Wales government has rejected a class action's claims that it dropped the ball in relation to the identification and management of underground utilities which caused delays in Sydney’s $3 billion light rail project.