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Several labour hire firms and the Morrison government are facing a potential class action for allegedly forcing South Pacific Islanders to work on Australian farms for low wages and in poor conditions.
Western Power is not entitled to palm off the legal costs of defending a class action after an appeals court found it was negligent in causing the January 2014 Perth Hills bushfire which destroyed 57 homes, a court has said.
E&P Financial Group says it will defend a class action brought against it, subsidiary Dixon Advisory and director Alan Dixon, alleging they reaped millions of dollars in fees by pushing unsuitable financial products onto investors.
Financial services company Dixon Advisory has been hit with a class action for allegedly pushing financial products onto investors that it stood to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from and failing to disclose its alleged conflict of interest.
A judge has left open the possibility that aggregate damages could be awarded in a class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of 185,000 vehicle owners over their defective cars.
If enacted, the latest class action reform bill before federal parliament will significantly alter the conduct and the outcomes of group litigation across all courts of Australia, and affect access to justice by creating a risk that worthy class actions won’t run, say Law Council of Australia class action committee members Lachlan Armstrong QC and Dr Peter Cashman.
A judge has ordered a class action against AMP to provide more detail in its case accusing the financial services firm of failing to disclose information to shareholders about allegedly misleading ASIC and charging clients fees for no service.
An issuer of Gold Coast-based cryptocurrency Qoin may be hit with a class action by investors claiming it is a “token of no utility”.
The federal government is seeking to avoid a representative proceeding brought on behalf of Indigenous men alleging its failure to “close the gap” in life expectancy necessitates a lower age eligibility for their fair and equal access to the age pension.
Shine Lawyers is seeking court permission to use a list of employees provided by collapsed telecommunications contractor Tandem in a stayed class action to assist group members with making claims and recovering losses in the company's liquidation.